Written answers
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to assist those under 25 years of age who are unemployed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular... - Community Employment Schemes
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension to time limits for workers on community employment schemes in community organisations in rural areas will be... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions will be made for artists and other freelance workers who may acquire work intermittently but have lost their... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for parents if their children are sent home from school due of Covid-19 and who have to miss work to... - Exceptional Needs Payment
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a slightly more liberal attitude can be taken in the determination of applications for exceptional needs payments in view... - Retirement Payment
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the budget has been agreed for the introduction of the State pension transition payment [25008/20] - Social Welfare Benefits
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process for a husband and wife to separate their social welfare payments from their spouse; if the husband and wife have... - State Pension (Contributory)
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a total contributions approach in relation to the assessment of a person’s contributory pension... - Social Welfare Eligibility
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation facing employees of a company (details supplied) waiting on payments from her... - Community Employment Schemes
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of places approved nationwide for community employment schemes; the number of participants on such schemes; and if... - Public Services Card
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons waiting for a public services card in order to access their entitlements, including the free travel... - Back to Education Allowance
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the back to education allowance course eligibility due to Covid-19 [25010/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to acknowledge the burden of care undertaken by full-time carers throughout the pandemic and on an ongoing basis in... - Poverty Data
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the CSO report on Enforced Deprivation published on 2 September 2020; her views on the... - Employment Support Services
50. 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 shared... - JobPath Programme
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of her plans to extend JobPath beyond the end of 2020; if contracts with providers Turas Nua and Seetec will be... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the seasonal workers who were not in employment by 13 March 2020 remain excluded from the Covid-19 pandemic... - Community Employment Schemes
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the local community employment scheme will be extended to supervisors; and the discretion to extend schemes or to extend... - Departmental Staff
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the resources in the sections of client identity services and child benefit; and if she will make a... - Carer's Benefit
58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if full-time carers who use carer's leave from their employer can go on to access carer's benefit; and if she will make a... - Community Employment Schemes
60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the changes in eligibility for community employment schemes will be clarified; and if she will make a statement on the...
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