Written answers
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Legislative Measures
638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made on plans to bring forward legislative proposals on the right to disconnect; the engagements undertaken on... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment of €350 per week will be reinstated for all members of an association (details... - Job Creation
641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce the supports for employment initiatives for persons with hearing loss or visual impairment as... - Employment Support Services
642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of rolling out the WALK PEER employment support service model nationwide; and if she will make a statement... - Commemorative Events
643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given among other possible memorial and commemorative to ideas that might emerge to naming the... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to sole traders under the summer stimulus package and other measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and... - Back to Education Allowance
646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has met with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on the role that... - School Staff
647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in payments for school crossing wardens for school holidays; if the summer payments will be... - Community Employment Schemes
649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the 2008 Labour Court recommendations regarding community employment supervisors will be implemented; and if she will... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the provisions in section 29 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020; and if... - Public Services Card
651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when appointments for the public services card will be reinstated; and the mitigation measures put in place by her Department... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a self-employed person (details supplied) is not being assessed for the pandemic unemployment payment on their... - Carer's Allowance
659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal lodged in respect of the decision to refuse a carer’s allowance for a person (details supplied) will be... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons on the Covid-19 payment and job seekers will lose payments for holidaying in Ireland on a staycation (details... - Personal Public Service Numbers
663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to historic cases by which women were given PPS numbers linked directly to that of their... - Community Employment Schemes
664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider putting a moratorium on the length of time participants can spend on a community employment scheme in... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of jobseeker's transitional payment can currently receive the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment in... - State Pension (Contributory)
668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused the State pension (contributory). [21247/20] - Departmental Records
669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot obtain the details they are requesting from the disability allowance section of... - Social Insurance
670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which the review of social insurance records of pensioners in receipt of a reduced rate State pension... - Community Employment Schemes
671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had communication with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its plan to close its Dublin community... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding fortnightly social welfare payments. [21373/20] - Carer's Support Grant
673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s support grant to €2,000; and if she will make a statement on the... - Disability Allowance
676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the disability allowance by €5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21385/20] - Blind Person's Pension
677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the blind pension by €9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21386/20] - Wage Subsidy Scheme
678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of reforming the wage subsidy scheme as per the all-party Oireachtas disability group recommendation; and... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when social welfare payments will return to weekly payments. [21438/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the eligibility criteria for the Covid-19 payment (details supplied). [21439/20] - Disability Allowance
681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) were refused disability payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21452/20] - Direct Provision Payments
682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Appeals
683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Carer's Allowance
685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the reduction in payments to a person (details supplied). [21585/20] - Pensions Data
686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence in relation to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Invalidity Pension
687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a further appeals process for a person (details supplied) to be awarded an invalidity pension; and if extenuating... - Legislative Measures
688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the legislation that results in the registration of babies that have died at birth being recorded... - State Pension (Contributory)
690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a full State pension contributory will be approved for a person (details supplied); the contribution record of the person;... - Social Welfare Appeals
691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when oral hearings in respect of social welfare appeals will recommence; if oral hearings can be held via an application... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when weekly payments will recommence for those social welfare recipients that would prefer weekly payments; and if she will... - Invalidity Pension
693. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an invalidity pension appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); when... - Jobseeker's Benefit
694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that were in receipt of the short-term work scheme in each of the past twelve months in tabular form;... - Disability Allowance
695. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Domiciliary Care Allowance
696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children whose parents received domiciliary care allowance up to the child turning 16 years of age that had... - Disability Allowance
697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be undertaken of the recent decision to cease disability allowance in the case of a person (details... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payment at the same rate will continue in the case of a person (details supplied); if the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment... - Exceptional Needs Payment
699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the application for an exceptional needs payment in respect of payment for a funeral in the case of a person (details... - State Pension (Non-Contributory)
700. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a State pension non-contributory appeal in respect of a person (details... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of contributions in relation to certain payments (details supplied) in cases in which persons have returned to... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pandemic unemployment payment application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a... - Farm Relief Scheme
704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend farm relief for farmers over 66 years of age in view of the fact that the pension age will increase to 67... - Disability Allowance
705. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
706. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons whose pandemic unemployment payment was cut to date; the number that have appealed the cut; the number... - Departmental Staff
707. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a vacancy occurred in her Department for the position of deputy secretary general; if she plans to fill the position by... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) and the rate of pandemic unemployment payment paid to them will be reviewed. [21888/20] - State Pensions
710. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the State pension transition payment will be introduced. [21896/20] - Supplementary Welfare Allowance
711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for supplementary welfare each month from March 2020 by county to date. [21897/20] - Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for back to school allowance made in 2020 compared to 2019. [21898/20] - Social Welfare Schemes
713. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the introduction of universal basic income; and if research has been carried out by her Department on the costs... - Covid-19 Pandemic
715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and type of events funded by her Department in 2020 that did not take place in tabular form; the cost of funding... - Community Employment Schemes
716. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider proposals to allow participants on a community employment scheme that are over 55 years of age to... - Social Welfare Code
717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a MyGovID account; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Invalidity Pension
718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will... - Jobseeker's Benefit
719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the amount of time that jobseeker’s benefit is payable in terms of the post Covid-19 outlook... - State Pensions
721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a promised report on the qualification for the State pension; and the timeline for the completion of same and a... - Carer's Allowance
722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review can be undertaken into eligibility for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she... - Community Employment Schemes
724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exemption to the requirement to be unemployed for 12 months before being eligible for the community employment... - Covid-19 Pandemic
725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements and restrictions in place for education and training for participants of social protection programmes such... - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme
726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a partial capacity benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
727. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears in payments for Covid-19 will be processed (details supplied). [22045/20] - Carer's Allowance
728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting since March 2020 for a decision to be made on their appeal for a... - State Pensions
729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an option to receive or collect State pension payments weekly will be provided to recipients; and if she will make a... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if workers that have an underlying illness such as COPD, immune deficiencies and so on will continue to receive the pandemic... - Employment Rights
731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person that is temporarily laid off work is subject to the definition of a break in service (details supplied); and if... - Free Travel Scheme
733. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements being made to give persons that are unable to get a public services card the free travel pass; and if she... - Jobseeker's Payments
734. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseeker’s payments that have been activated in each county quarterly from Q1 2018 to Q2 2020, in... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment that take up a springboard course will continue to receive the... - Back to Education Allowance
737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
738. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons returning to work from short career breaks are entitled to the pandemic unemployment payment; if not, the reason;... - Community Employment Schemes
739. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment scheme will be extended for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a... - Data Protection
740. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clients that are not comfortable providing personal data and information to Turas Nua will have failure to attend and or... - Child Benefit
743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the payment of child benefit to include those children that have reached 18 years of age but are still in... - Public Services Card
744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process for persons renewing the public services card; if the process has changed due to Covid-19; the measures in place... - Social Welfare Eligibility
745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare supports in place for a person (details supplied) that lives here but pays tax in the UK. [22235/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
746. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of artists and those working in the entertainment industry that were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment... - Fuel Allowance
748. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients and the level of funding in the past five years paid to recipients of the fuel allowance in tabular... - Free Travel Scheme
749. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of free travel applications awaiting processing; the average turnaround time for new applications to the scheme;... - Personal Public Service Numbers
750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [22344/20] - Community Employment Schemes
752. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to publish the review of community employment schemes carried out in 2018; when the recommendations of same... - Departmental Reports
753. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the report carried out by external consultants to review all current contracted public employment services has been... - Covid-19 Pandemic
754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if airport checkpoints are still in operation that are staffed by her officials. [22433/20] - Carer's Allowance
758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the reason a decision has not yet issued on a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) received... - Disability Allowance
759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reassessed in view of the circumstances; and if she will make a statement... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to granting a request by a person (details supplied) to travel to Romania to visit their... - Departmental Offices
761. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to her Department in civil service accommodation... - Ministerial Advisers
763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants working in her Department appointed... - Social Welfare Rates
765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of every €1 and €5 increase in weekly social protection payments for 2021; the cost by individual... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment in 2020; the projected cost for 2021 based on the current... - Rent Supplement Scheme
772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of retaining the enhanced rent supplement for the rest of 2020 and all of 2021; and if she will make a statement on... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
774. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have received the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit to date; the current number of recipients; and... - Jobseeker's Allowance
775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of restoring jobseeker’s allowance rates for those under 25 years of age to the full adult rate; and if she... - Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
776. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the back to school clothing and footwear allowance by €25 respectively for both rates; the... - Fuel Allowance
777. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the rate of fuel allowance from €24.50 by every €1, €5.50 and €10 per... - Back to Education Allowance
779. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of an additional 5,000 places on back to education allowance; the projected number of places that will be funded in... - Illness Benefit
781. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of scrapping the waiting days for illness benefit of reducing it to one and three days respectively; and if she will... - Carer's Allowance
782. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the income disregard for carer’s allowance to €450 for single and €900 for... - Carer's Support Grant
783. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the carer’s support grant by €100 and €300 respectively in 2021; and if she will... - School Meals Programme
784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional schools that will provide hot school meals in September 2020; the number currently offering the... - Direct Provision Payments
785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the weekly payment to adults in direct provision to €50; the cost of increasing the payments... - School Meals Programme
786. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending the school meals programme to each primary and secondary school that does not offer the programme; the... - State Pensions
787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2021 of not increasing the eligibility age for the State pension to 67 years of age in 2021, retaining... - Illness Benefit
788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the denial of illness benefit in the case of a person (details supplied); and if there are available State... - Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent of the backlog in issuing the back to school allowance by county; the action being taken to address the backlog;... - Ministerial Advisers
791. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of special advisers that will be hired by her Department. [22781/20]
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