Written answers
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Eligibility
370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if respite grants for the past two years are due to a person (details supplied). [27481/21] - Social Welfare Benefits
371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider providing free travel cards for persons with epilepsy during the period in which they are disallowed... - Personal Public Service Numbers
372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when PPS numbers will issue to persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27506/21] - Social Welfare Benefits
373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on raising maternity benefit to €350 weekly over the lifetime of the Government; and if she will make a... - School Meals Programme
374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the free hot school meals programme to all DEIS schools and all other schools that request to participate;... - Social Welfare Eligibility
375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the official State recognition of partners that have been long-term cohabiters but are not yet... - Social Welfare Benefits
376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of visually impaired persons in receipt of the blind pension; and if consideration will be given to removing or... - Social Welfare Schemes
379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reintroduce arrangements in which persons on an invalidity pension could get permission to work part-time, known... - Immigration Support Services
380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to help vulnerable migrant job seekers, including asylum seekers, to access the workplace; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which those that live in close proximity to wind farms and receive... - Community Employment Schemes
382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if community employment schemes will be extended further beyond July 2021; if contract extensions will be provided to persons... - Departmental Reports
383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has received a report (details supplied) if so, the timeline for the publication of the report; and if she will make a... - Food Poverty
384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the initiatives being undertaken in her Department in relation to addressing food poverty; the research or scoping exercises... - Social Welfare Benefits
385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that children whose carers that have been allocated a free travel pass have not themselves being allocated a free... - Employment Support Services
386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the work placement and experience programme announced as part of the July jobs stimulus is due to commence; and if she... - School Meals Programme
387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools that provide school meals by county in tabular form. [27847/21] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons still awaiting pandemic unemployment payment arrears payments; the average time persons wait for a... - Departmental Staff
408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position of employees in her Department who are seconded to other agencies during their work life; the way their salaries... - Poverty Impact Assessment
410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the poverty impact assessment of reduced jobseeker rates for 18 to 24 year olds as committed to in the Social... - Social Welfare Benefits
411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an example of the way the disability allowance means test operates step by step in circumstances (details... - Social Welfare Schemes
412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the avenues of assistance that are available to a self-employed person, paying S class contributions if they find themselves... - Community Welfare Services
413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is the community welfare officer who decides the location in which any item should be purchased following the... - School Meals Programme
416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) is not included in the hot meals scheme unlike other schools in the area; if she will... - Departmental Schemes
417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the negotiated proposals for gratuity payments for community employment supervisors and community employment assistant... - Pension Provisions
418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is no longer eligible for an incapacity supplement as an increase to their disablement... - State Pensions
419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of State pension (contributory) awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed following... - Departmental Data
420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a policy of data back-up in the operations of her Department and all agencies under her remit. [28125/21] - Community Employment Schemes
421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will further extend community employment scheme placements that are due to end to allow participants to complete... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the formal procedure in place for setting up a recovery plan over a period of time in respect of substantial Covid pandemic... - Departmental Legal Services
424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28309/21] - Social Welfare Payments
425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance; and the number who are on a reduced rate. [28343/21] - Social Welfare Benefits
427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average revenue net weekly pay for current recipients of casual and short-time social welfare benefit schemes by scheme... - Cybersecurity Policy
429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the investment made by her Department and State agencies under its remit in each year in cyber security for the past ten...
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