Written answers
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Enterprise Support Services
758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for the enterprise support grant from businesses in north County Kildare; the number of... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision has been made as part of the July stimulus package for temporary clerical officers that are on short contracts... - Civil Marriages
763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria used by registrars under the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 to assess the way in which a proposed... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clarity can be provided to self-employed persons particularly in the arts sector with regard to the pandemic unemployment... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to assist the seasonal workers that were not working in March 2020 and therefore unable to claim the... - Covid-19 Pandemic
770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the other measures being considered to create disincentives to act in a manner which contravenes public health advice further... - Company Liquidations
775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement the recommendations of the Duffy Cahill report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20981/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number or estimated number of workers affected by the policy which states that employed and self-employed incomes cannot... - Disability Allowance
779. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability allowance has been received from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Carer's Allowance
780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in assessing applications for carer’s allowance; the result of the appeal of a person... - Back to Education Allowance
781. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a period of time on carer's benefit can be used as a qualifying period of time for the back to education allowance in the... - Ministerial Communications
782. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she, her Ministers of State or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the... - Ministerial Meetings
783. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the meetings she and her Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details... - Ministerial Advisers
784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of her advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the... - Carer's Allowance
785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for a carer's allowance as of 17 July 2020. [19683/20] - Ministerial Advisers
786. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names and salaries of her special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in her Department;... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in April, May, June and July 2020, by Dáil... - Rent Supplement Scheme
788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing rent supplement to 7,100 extra applications received since March 2020; the average cost per... - Illness Benefit
794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider eligibility for those that took time off work to look after an elderly or incapacitated family members... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
795. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of paying the pandemic unemployment payment at a rate of €250 for those that earned less... - Maternity Benefit
797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending maternity benefit by 12 weeks for mothers whose maternity leave ends between March and... - Low Pay Commission
799. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of running the Low Pay Commission. [19996/20] - Social Welfare Schemes
800. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing each weekly social welfare scheme by €1 per week in tabular form. [19997/20] - Social Welfare Benefits
801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment to meet the minimum essential standard of... - Qualified Child Allowance
802. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the qualified child increase for the over 12s by €5. [19999/20] - One-Parent Family Payment
804. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the age limit for the one-parent family payment to 14 years. [20001/20] - Jobseeker's Payments
805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing jobseeker’s payments for those aged under 24 years of age to the full... - Child Benefit
806. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of making a one-off annual double payment of child benefit to recipients. [20003/20] - Carer's Support Grant
808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the carer’s support grant to €2,000. [20005/20] - Jobseeker's Payments
809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the cut-off age of the jobseeker’s transitional payment to 18. [20006/20] - Working Family Payment
810. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reducing the working family payment hours threshold to lone parents from 19 to 15 hours.... - One-Parent Family Payment
812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of raising the cut-off age of the one parent family payment scheme to 14 years. [20009/20] - Child Maintenance Payments
815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of establishing a child maintenance service similar to that available in Northern Ireland. [20012/20] - State Pensions
816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reintroducing the State pension transition scheme for 65 year olds. [20013/20] - Employment Support Services
818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of replicating the WALK PEER programme in each county. [20015/20] - Fuel Allowance
819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending the fuel allowance payment period by one week. [20016/20] - Community Employment Schemes
821. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing an occupational pension to community employment supervisors and assistant... - JobPath Programme
823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of immediately abolishing the JobPath scheme. [20020/20] - Community Employment Schemes
824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing for an additional 1,000 places on the community employment scheme. [20021/20] - Rural Social Scheme
825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing for an additional 500 places on the rural social scheme. [20022/20] - Community Employment Schemes
826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding to community employment by 10%. [20023/20] - Parental Leave
832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of men and women, respectively that have taken parent’s leave and benefit since it was introduced. [20070/20] - JobPath Programme
833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to JobPath year on year since it was established; and the number of persons... - Employment Support Services
840. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide further details of her plans as contained in the July stimulus to enhance public employment service... - Community Employment Schemes
841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing or extending the three-year rule on community employment schemes as a result of lost time on... - Rural Social Scheme
843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the six-year rule for participants on the rural social scheme and revert to allowing participants remain... - Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
844. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting time for each application for social welfare payments, in tabular form. [20082/20] - Rural Transport Services
846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to further invest in RuralLink; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20088/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic
847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to put in place additional resources, including additional medical staff, to deal with a Covid-19 breakout on the... - Pensions Reform
848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will elaborate on the commitment in the programme for Government to establish a commission on pensions; when this... - Social Welfare Inspections
850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of inspections that have been carried out in airports and ports here to enforce a ban on holiday travel abroad... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
853. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements in place to confirm persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and temporary wage subsidy... - Youth Services
855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have participated on the youth employment support scheme since it was established; the number of... - Jobseeker's Payments
857. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 18 to 24 years of age in receipt of the reduced rate of jobseeker’s payment; the number of... - Social Insurance
858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) which is using the temporary wage subsidy... - Enterprise Support Services
859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment in order to apply for the back to work enterprise... - Back to Education Allowance
860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider relaxing the length of time a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment in order to apply for... - Social Welfare Benefits
862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 respectively, in tabular... - Carer's Benefit
863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to her Department of removing the means test from carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the rule which restricts persons receiving either carer’s allowance or carers benefit from working... - Carer's Support Grant
865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that received carer’s support grant automatically in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the reduced pandemic unemployment payment by a person (details supplied) can be reviewed in view of the... - Carer's Allowance
868. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the means test from the carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
869. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of unemployment payments by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Inspections
870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the locations in which social welfare officers have carried out random inspections from 7 July 2020 to the most recent data... - Parental Leave
871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending paid parental leave for one parent families which would result in them having the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all social welfare payments will remain in payment while essential travel for three weeks for health reasons takes place... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of and location in which guidelines in relation pandemic unemployment payment recipients leaving the country for... - Maternity Benefit
876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for maternity benefit. [20549/20] - Social Welfare Eligibility
877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for dental benefit. [20550/20] - State Pension (Contributory)
878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the State pension (contributory); and if a response to their appeal will be... - Departmental Staff
879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department... - Free Travel Scheme
881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funds paid to all public transport operators for the provision and operation of the free travel scheme since... - Social Welfare Inspections
882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare recipients that have had payments stopped or reduced on foot of operations by social welfare... - Departmental Expenditure
883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payments for services or goods by her Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20775/20] - Public Services Card
884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the appeal of the enforcement notice regarding the public services card; and if she will make a statement on... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that received a cut to their pandemic unemployment payment; the number that have appealed the cut; and... - Employment Rights
886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the remedy available to those that have returned to work post-Covid-19 lay-off to have different terms and conditions... - Social Welfare Inspections
887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of officials by grade from her Department that are located at entry and or exit ports and airports here; the... - Working Family Payment
888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location by county of those in receipt of the working family payment that are paying class H PRSI for the past three... - Rural Social Scheme
889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the number of places available under the rural social scheme in view of the importance of the scheme to... - Carer's Allowance
891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance applications that have been refused on means ground only in the past three years in... - Departmental Advertising
892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so,... - Social Welfare Benefits
893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a possible termination of jobseeker’s and disability payments in the case of a...
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