Written answers
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Carer's Allowance
460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of carer's allowance are subject to Garda vetting as part of the application process for same; and if... - Jobseeker's Payments
462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the number of employees availing of the short-term working week will be published; and if she will make a statement on the... - Fuel Allowance
463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement... - Community Employment Schemes
464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the community employment scheme will be extended for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a... - Pensions Reform
465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the suitability of the rates and eligibility criteria attached to the widow's, widower's or surviving civil... - Personal Public Service Numbers
467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a personal public service number for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Communications
468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when phone lines (details supplied) will be reopened for queries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39629/20] - Invalidity Pension
469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of eligibility for an invalidity pension will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); the... - Supplementary Welfare Allowance
470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a supplementary welfare allowance will be issued to a person (details supplied) who has appealed the decision to refuse... - Community Employment Schemes
471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment scheme placement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be extended; and if... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pandemic unemployment payment recipients will receive all arrears in 2020; if assurances will be provided that if arrears... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons over 66 years of age are not considered for the Covid-19 crisis payment; and if she will make a statement... - Invalidity Pension
474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when a person (details supplied) will qualify for an invalidity pension given that his existing payment is due to... - School Meals Programme
475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the meals provided for in each school meals programme meets the requirements set out in Healthy Ireland guides and the... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those who are currently in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment as a result of their employment being closed due... - Student Support Schemes
477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Intreo will not provide a statement of the record of payments to a jobseeker (details supplied) in order to... - Community Employment Schemes
478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on changes to the community employment scheme over the past three years; the improvements being made to... - Pension Provisions
479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the provision of pensions for community employment supervisors will be facilitated as per the recommendations of the 2008... - Covid-19 Pandemic
480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the guidelines that Intreo offices have been issued in relation to the sanitisation of electronic signing equipment used by... - State Pension (Contributory)
481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of an application made for a contributory old age pension by a person (details supplied); when the person can... - Disability Allowance
482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on a disability allowance review; and if she will make a statement... - Local Employment Service
483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the regions which will be prioritised for funding in relation to additional funding for new services in local employment; and... - Qualified Child Allowance
487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will backdate the award of an increase in qualified children benefit to March 2018 in the case of a person (details... - Guardian's Payment
488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-examine an application for guardianship payment that was refused in the case of a person (details supplied)... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of pandemic unemployment payment arrears due to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Community Employment Schemes
490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment scheme placement will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the reason those on incapacity payments are being refused the wage... - Youth Unemployment
492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy measures being taken by her Department to help young people secure employment particularly in areas of high... - Illness Benefit
493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare and early years education workers who are availing of the enhanced illness benefit. [31347/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms of support available to a person who is unemployed as a result of the pandemic. [29980/20] - Departmental Inquiries
495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the qualifying criteria for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment to qualify for the Christmas bonus for social... - Personal Public Service Numbers
497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a PPSN by a person (details supplied); when the application will be processed; and if she... - Working Family Payment
498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will pay a working family payment to a person (details supplied); when the application was first received by her... - Disability Allowance
499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment review will be finalised with arrears due paid to a person (details supplied); and if she... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increased pandemic unemployment payment benefit will be paid to a person (details supplied); and the reason their claim... - School Staff
501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if community employment workers are permitted to work in primary schools as cleaners, maintenance and so on; and if she will... - Carer's Benefit
502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to persons being denied carer’s benefit as they do not meet the requirement of having... - Paternity Leave
503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if paternity leave for the first child has increased from two weeks to five weeks; and if she will make a statement on the... - Living Alone Allowance
504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a living alone allowance application by a person (details supplied); if the allowance will be backdated; and if... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a Covid payment will be backdated for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40443/20] - Fuel Allowance
506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the fuel allowance allowed and disallowed in each of the past eight years to date; the main... - Departmental Inquiries
507. 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... - Covid-19 Pandemic
508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget for her Department to meet increased demand... - State Pensions
510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which women or men who have insufficient contributions to meet the requirements for qualification for the old... - Social Welfare Benefits
511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which due process and natural justice remains paramount in the context of dealing with social welfare... - State Pensions
513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of old age pensioners in receipt of a pension in each of the past five years to date in 2020; and if she will make... - Working Family Payment
514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the number of persons in receipt of working family payment has fluctuated in each of the past five years... - Social Welfare Benefits
515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Christmas bonus will be paid; the categories of social welfare recipients that will receive same; and if she will... - Pensions Reform
516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a representative of an organisation (details supplied) can be invited to join the Pensions Commission in order to ensure... - Jobseeker's Benefit
517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extend further jobseeker's benefit due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a... - Jobseeker's Allowance
518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to relax the jobseeker's allowance means testing process due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if... - Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme
519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is considering new supports for enterprise start-ups such as through the back to work enterprise scheme as... - Rural Social Scheme
520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the number of places on the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40514/20] - Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme
521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reintroduce the mortgage interest supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40515/20]
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