Written answers

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if freelance workers can qualify for the pandemic unemployment payment if they were not at work for the relevant weeks of...
  • Invalidity Pension
    528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Pension Provisions
    530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are supports available for persons in receipt of social welfare payments to pay for the cost of gym memberships or...
  • Pensions Reform
    532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered ensuring that inheritances that do not qualify for inheritance tax do not affect a non-contributory...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who have more than one job and lose one of their sources of income as a result of Covid-19 can be eligible for the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will respond to concerns raised by a person (details attached) about possible additional funding grants for carers...
  • Wage Subsidy Scheme
    535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the basic rate payable, under the wage subsidiary scheme, to bring it in line with the increases in the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent to date on the pandemic unemployment payment; the breakdown of monthly spending on the payment since March...
  • Back to Education Allowance
    538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is room for flexibility with the back-to-education allowance in circumstances in which an application rejection...
  • Illness Benefit
    539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the technical issues encountered by the illness benefit section in 2019, following the introduction of e-certification and...
  • Invalidity Pension
    540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be fully re-examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11317/21]
  • Fuel Allowance
    541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a fuel allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied) who made an application in 2020; and if she will make...
  • Public Procurement Contracts
    542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department, or bodies under her aegis, that...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the materials grant provided to community employment schemes (details supplied). [11439/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on proposals to enable persons who are cocooning due to Covid-19 to apply for a public services card without...
  • Child Poverty
    545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children currently deemed as living in poverty in Ireland. [11518/21]
  • Rent Supplement Scheme
    546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of current recipients of rent supplement; and the number of recipients of rent supplement in 2018, 2019 and 2020,...
  • Human Rights
    547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current definition of the minimum essential standard of living in Ireland. [11534/21]
  • Working Family Payment
    548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the working family payment; the number of recipients of the working family payment, by month,...
  • JobsPlus Scheme
    549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the JobsPlus scheme applies to solicitor apprentices; if not, if it can be extended to them to allow solicitors to take...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the record will be corrected regarding the statement by the chief appeals officer of the Social Welfare Appeals Office to...
  • Invalidity Pension
    551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to an invalidity pension. [11644/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding social welfare entitlements for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if time lost by participants on community employment schemes and Tús due to Covid-19 will be given back to them with...
  • Illness Benefit
    554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has put in place measures to ensure that a person whose entitlement to illness benefit and similar has expired due to...
  • Back to Education Allowance
    555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considered waiving the qualifying period for those on jobseeker’s when applying for the back to education...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 rent supplement will be extended beyond 31 March 2021. [11762/21]
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance
    557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of the domiciliary care allowance and disability survey carried out by her Department in March 2018; the number...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available from her Department for persons who have had to leave their homes due to flooding; the way such...
  • Social Welfare Application Forms
    561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason application forms for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds are not available online in order that persons can...
  • Work Placement Programmes
    562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons engaged in youth employment schemes in an area (details supplied). [11911/21]
  • Blind Person's Pension
    563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the threshold for receipt of the blind pension paid by her Department will be reassessed for artists and musicians given...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused an application under the new benefit payment for 65-year-olds; the options...
  • Child Benefit
    565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending child benefit past the age of 18 years for children who remain in education in...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive their PPSN; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • National Broadband Plan
    568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reversing the community employment criteria for over-55s and returning it to five consecutive years from...

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