Written answers
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- School Meals Programme
629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extension of the operation and funding for the school meals scheme will be considered beyond the end of June 2020 to... - Civil Marriages
630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the Covid-19 guidelines to permit small civil marriages on and after 8 June 2020 with... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment of €350 will be suspended in view of the fact it was a 12-week temporary payment;... - Employment Rights
632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual leave entitlements childcare professionals and workers are entitled to during the current Covid-19 pandemic period... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that are regarded as high-risk and unable to return to former employment due to cocooning can continue to avail of... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if points raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be examined; if a response will issue in relation to same; and if... - State Pension (Contributory)
637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review into entitlement to the State pension (contributory); the number of cases reviewed to date; the... - Community Employment Schemes
640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a contract will be extended for a person (details supplied). [9719/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position in relation to self-employed persons whose main or sole income relates to unearned rental income qualifying for... - Covid-19 Pandemic
642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the period of exclusion to claim redundancy due to temporary lay-off and or short time during Covid-19 is due to be... - Respite Care Grant
643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter in relation to a respite care grant application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 863 of 27 May 2020, if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details... - Carer's Allowance
646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if required, if an oral hearing... - Disability Allowance
648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be made on an appeal for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied). [9881/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an alteration will be made to the pandemic unemployment payment conditions in order to allow a person in receipt of the... - Social Welfare Appeals
650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a reply will issue to correspondence she referred to the Social Welfare Appeals Office (details supplied); and if she will... - Disability Allowance
651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be expedited in view of the circumstances; and if she will make a statement... - Community Employment Schemes
652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the contract of community employment supervisors that are obliged to retire at 66 years of age... - Public Services Card
653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person can obtain a public services card during the Covid-19 pandemic due to restrictions. [9969/20] - Jobseeker's Allowance
654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an 18-year-old person cannot sign on for jobseeker’s until after they receive their leaving certificate... - Cycle to Work Scheme
655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it... - Rent Supplement Scheme
656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement applications received from 13 March 2020 to the most recent date for which figures are... - Child Benefit
657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the period within which child benefit can be paid up until the end of full-time... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will be issued. [10038/20] - Civil Marriages
659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will permit civil marriage ceremonies to commence again particularly in certain circumstances (details supplied); if... - Working Family Payment
660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if family income supplement will be approved for persons (details supplied). [10065/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if supports will be put in place for seasonal workers (details supplied) that are out of work as a direct result of Covid-19;... - Public Services Card
662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the situation by which persons are unable to access services on the MyGovID.ie portal due to the fact... - Invalidity Pension
664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [10111/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will not be subject to forms of clawback in the future. [10148/20] - Illness Benefit
673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the enhanced illness benefit for more than two weeks to those that cannot return to work due to the... - Child Maintenance Payments
678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the progress of the judge-led group announced as part of Budget 2020 to examine and make recommendations in... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 payment will be reinstated to asylum seekers in direct provision; if an increase to the rate of the daily... - Personal Public Service Numbers
686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are delays being experienced to the processing of PPS number applications as a result of Covid-19 compared to the...
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