Written answers

Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Employment Rights
    24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on employees of a company (details supplied) seeking an enhanced redundancy package; if legislation and additional...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement she has had on pension rights for community employment supervisors. [18480/20]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the practice of reviewing pandemic unemployment payments for the self-employed exclusively against their 2018 tax returns...
  • State Pension (Contributory)
    36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to introduce a system to enable persons to defer receipt of their State pension (contributory) on an annual...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons from the arts sector will be kept at the higher rate of the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the fact they...
  • Social Welfare Rates
    38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered index linking social welfare supports in view of the publication of figures by an organisation (details...
  • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
    39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the enhancement of the role of MABS has been examined to help families deal with unsecured household debt; if she has...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting times for various appeals in respect of schemes or payments run by her Department; her plans to reduce...
  • Carer's Allowance
    41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing discretion on the 18.5 hours per week employment exemption under the carer's allowance scheme in...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the duration of community employment schemes will be extended. [18483/20]
  • National Minimum Wage
    43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to replace the minimum wage with the living wage. [15755/20]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role her Department will play in developing a new social contract with citizens; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Pension Provisions
    46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the reintroduction of the transitionary pension from 65 to 66 years of age as outlined in the Programme for...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the eligibility criteria for community employment schemes. [18479/20]
  • Jobseeker's Benefit
    49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for jobseeker’s benefit in 2020 that were ruled ineligible for not having had either 39 weeks...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment that reported self-employed and PAYE income within the same...
  • Social Insurance
    53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the ratio of persons aged 65 years of age and over in 2016 to the numbers aged between 25 and 64 years of age and to the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for persons on the Covid-19 rent supplement payment post 30 August 2020; and if an assurance will be given that no...
  • Pension Provisions
    56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when options for a pension solution for carers will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18962/20]
  • Community Employment Schemes
    57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the age criteria for qualification for community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Social Insurance
    58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a training and education credit to the PRSI system similar to the homemakers' credit to encourage...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals received to puprerate@welfare.ie since the reduction of pandemic unemployment payment; the average...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by mothers whose maternity leave is coming to an end at...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the pension needs of community employment scheme supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Carer's Allowance
    69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to alter the eligibility criteria for payments to carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18803/20]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider contacting organisations (details supplied) with the intention of re-establishing the Covid-19 hardship...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme
    72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to make rent supplement more easily available to victims of domestic violence. [18973/20]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role of her Department in the July stimulus package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19037/20]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants that were receiving the €350 Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment that have had the amount...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures included in the July stimulus package to tackle youth unemployment and support young persons to return to the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will be included as a qualifying payment for the back to education allowance....
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the availability of back-to-work schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18808/20]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an additional bank holiday will be introduced in 2020 as part of stimulus measures. [16650/20]
  • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
    86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recent report issued by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council on the sustainability of future pension provision;...
  • Carer's Allowance
    87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider basing the financial assessment for carer’s allowance on net income and not gross income in line...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the availability of activation and back-to-work schemes in order to support persons to return to work;...
  • Enterprise Support Services
    89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clarity will be provided on the status of persons over 66 years of age and the enterprise support grant (details supplied);...
  • School Meals Programme
    90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the roll-out of the school meals programme. [18482/20]
  • Employment Rights
    94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes she plans to make to employment legislation to enhance the rights of workers facing mass redundancies in view of...
  • School Meals Programme
    95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the schools lunch programme with a view to expanding it throughout school holidays; and if she will make a...

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