Written answers
Thursday, 3 December 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes
13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider to community employment scheme participants nationwide that have missed out on four to five months on the... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if dependents of pandemic unemployment payment applicants can be added to their claim. [39988/20] - Community Employment Schemes
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made in providing community employment supervisors access to pensions in line with the 2008 Labour Court... - Pensions Reform
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider requests to include representatives from organisations (details supplied) on the Pensions Commission.... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider provision for payment of the pandemic unemployment payment to high-risk childcare workers who have been... - School Meals Programme
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39722/20] - Social Welfare Benefits
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the means-testing arrangements for the State pension qualified adult payment; and if she will make a... - Parental Leave
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement she has had with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to progress the... - Covid-19 Pandemic
22. 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... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of self-employed persons who have benefited from the enterprise support grant to date; and if she will make a... - Pensions Reform
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of legislation to stop the increase in the pension age. [39992/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of payments issued under the pandemic unemployment payment to date; the value of these payments; and if she will... - Poverty Reduction
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which it is envisaged the poverty targets in the social inclusion roadmap will be achieved. [39664/20] - Pensions Reform
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that persons who have worked all their lives and who are required by their employer to... - Student Grant Scheme
28. 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 status of Covid-19... - JobPath Programme
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the future of the JobPath programme. [30676/20] - Community Employment Schemes
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the number of places on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Child Poverty
31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on child poverty measures in Budget 2021 to increase social welfare payments by €2 per child under 12 and... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment. [40081/20] - Social Welfare Inspections
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of inspections carried out by inspectors by county since the start of public health restrictions. [39989/20] - Domestic Violence Policy
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce paid leave from employment for those experiencing domestic violence. [40023/20] - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme
36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider including the PCP in the WSS scheme administered by her Department (details supplied); and if she will... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that have been received for the new €1,000 enterprise support grant for the self-employed;... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of pandemic unemployment payment recipients who are due arrears; and the date when payment on these arrears can be... - Living Alone Allowance
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increase to the living alone allowance as announced in budget 2021 will take effect; the number of persons in County... - Community Employment Schemes
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if approval will be given to extend the duration of the community employment scheme without requiring additional qualifying... - Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting time for carer’s payments applications and for a review of decisions relating to same; and if she will make... - Child Poverty
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made in reaching the 2020 target to reduce by 66% from 2011 levels the number of children in consistent poverty... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the pandemic unemployment payment to persons over 66 years of age in the workforce; the estimated cost of... - Living Alone Allowance
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increase in the living alone allowance and the fuel allowance will take effect; the number of persons who will... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of the funding issued through the restart grant plus scheme which has been sought back; and if there have been... - Covid-19 Pandemic
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the impact of the move to level 5 on the budget of her Department for 2020. [40166/20] - Post Office Network
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement her Department has had with An Post in regard to expanding existing relationships with it; and if she will make... - Pensions Reform
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the establishment of the Commission on Pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39998/20] - Disability Allowance
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of disability study; if the disability allowance will be increased by €20 as a temporary measure... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if cuts made to the pandemic unemployment payment in September 2020 will be reversed in view of the increased restrictions... - Public Employment Services
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has received the report carried out by external consultants to review all current contracted public employment... - Carer's Support Grant
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who will benefit from the carer’s support grant in 2021; if this payment was increased in budget... - Poverty Reduction
60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the social inclusion roadmap; and the status of its implementation. [39663/20] - School Meals Programme
61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a review of the current criteria for school meals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39856/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by artists and creatives in accessing the pandemic unemployment... - Qualified Child Allowance
65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increases to the qualified child payments as announced in budget 2021 will take effect; the number of families that... - Working Family Payment
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of working family payments and one parent family payments ahead of setting targets for 2021 following... - Carer's Benefit
67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the PRSI contribution conditions for carer’s benefit to include class S self-employed contributions... - Social Welfare Benefits
68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase supports to family carers including amending eligibility criteria, increasing payment rates and... - Poverty Reduction
72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she will address inequalities relating to poverty during 2021; the specific improvements she will make in... - Social Welfare Benefits
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Christmas bonus will be paid; the number of persons in County Wexford who will benefit from the bonus; and if she... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that all workers from the performing arts and live entertainments industries including those who by the... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to support persons back to education and back to work in response to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on... - Free Travel Scheme
76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will introduce to ensure that the free travel scheme will be available on all bus routes that are publicly... - Community Employment Schemes
77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the time that a person aged 55 years and over can remain on a community employment scheme; and... - Personal Public Service Numbers
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being examined to reduce the current delays experienced in processing PPS numbers; if a fast track system is... - Carbon Tax
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report on the impact assessment of the current and projected future increases in carbon tax on low income... - Free Travel Scheme
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the free travel scheme will be applicable to more bus routes that are publicly licensed in 2021; and if she will make a... - Fuel Allowance
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increase to the fuel allowance payment will take effect; the number of persons in County Mayo who will benefit; and... - Community Employment Schemes
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a reduction in the minimum threshold for which a person must be in receipt of social welfare in order to gain access to a...
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