Written answers
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Birth Certificates
842. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the birth certificate application of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the... - Money Advice and Budgeting Service
843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have availed of Abhaile vouchers, by county; the categories in which the applications were made;... - Employment Support Services
844. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on criticism by an organisation (details supplied) of Government plans for a regional employment service that seeks... - Family Resource Centres
845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding streams available for a family and community resource centre to purchase land adjacent to its property for... - School Meals Programme
846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided for the school meals programme for the 2020-2021 academic year. [30540/21] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for persons who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and had their payments ceased as a... - Disability Services
848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the uptake and funding rates of the disability awareness support scheme between 2017 and 2021, in tabular... - Haulage Industry
849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advertise grants for Heavy Goods Vehicle, HGV, and bus driver lessons as part of the back to work scheme given... - Social Welfare Benefits
850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's application by a person (details supplied) who is providing full-time care for both... - Social Welfare Schemes
855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider automatically extending the free travel scheme to persons who lose their driving licence due to a... - Social Welfare Benefits
856. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing maternity benefit from 26 weeks to 29 weeks. [30726/21] - Departmental Staff
857. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff by grade working in the household benefits section; and the number of vacancies by grade within the... - Departmental Bodies
858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of advocates in the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities; and the estimated full-year cost of... - Social Welfare Benefits
859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the carer's support grant by €75, €150 and €225,... - State Pensions
861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will allow an individual grievance, conversation or mediation regarding an unsolved pensions issue ongoing... - Social Welfare Benefits
862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households eligible for schemes (details supplied) effective from 1 August 2018. [30826/21] - Low Pay Commission
863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the implementation of the universal basic income pilot committed to as part of the request to the Low Pay... - Departmental Schemes
864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on allowing schools (details supplied) with registered charitable status to participate in the Tús scheme; and... - Social Welfare Benefits
865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of social welfare payments for April, May and June and to date in 2021; and the number in... - Departmental Expenditure
866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in her Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January... - Departmental Reviews
867. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of each value-for-money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external... - Social Welfare Benefits
868. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure on the back to education allowance for each year for which data is available; if this cost covers fees and-or... - Social Welfare Schemes
870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way the artists pilot scheme for social protection has been developed since 2017; the number of artists who have been... - Social Welfare Benefits
871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that receive child benefit payments; and the number of children these are in respect of. [31166/21] - Community Employment Schemes
877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment placement will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she... - Social Welfare Benefits
878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the full rate of carer’s allowance. [31207/21] - Irish Sign Language
880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review by her Department of the functioning of the IRIS application; if she will consider keeping the... - Departmental Data
881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department can withhold personal data for up to seven years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31234/21] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there can be a grace period of reopening for business owners who are on the pandemic unemployment payment and are taking... - Parental Leave
883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding parent’s leave benefit; and if she... - Departmental Funding
885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a training fund of up to €1,000 is available for persons in receipt of jobseeker’s payment but is... - Departmental Websites
886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the... - Pension Provisions
888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to arrears of a contributory pension. [31368/21] - Social Welfare Schemes
889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the threshold for earned income in order to qualify for deserted wife’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 supports will remain in place for certain sectors beyond September 2021; and her views on whether certain... - Social Welfare Schemes
892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer’s benefit allocation of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Staff
893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employees who are on secondment from her Department to other organisations; the number of these who are in... - Departmental Schemes
894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the amount spent... - Pension Provisions
898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures her Department has in place to address concerns of seconded local employment scheme and community employment... - Departmental Schemes
899. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the EmployAbility Service by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if... - Departmental Funding
900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the walk peer programme to extend the service to each county; and... - Departmental Schemes
901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the disregard which now applies to disability allowance recipients who have been granted bursaries, stipends or... - Social Welfare Appeals
903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31545/21] - Departmental Schemes
905. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make the form for the benefit payment for 65-year olds available to download and print rather than on request... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of artists that have qualified to date for State supports under the various Covid-19 pandemic support schemes; the... - Departmental Schemes
909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a carer’s allowance in the case of a person (details... - Departmental Data
911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals to each job club by location in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [31644/21] - Maternity Leave
912. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to extend maternity leave by 52 weeks. [31655/21] - Employment Schemes
913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons accessing employment services through INTREO in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date 2021, in... - Departmental Strategies
914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the pathways to work strategy 2021-2024 will be launched; if further information on the announced work placement... - Parental Leave
915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing six weeks of parental benefit which would be the same rate as maternity benefit but which... - Departmental Data
916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing maternity, paternity and adoptive benefit by €10 per week. [31666/21] - Departmental Schemes
917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be an extension for those on community employment schemes beyond 2 July 2021 after receiving little or no... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which persons contracted to airline companies that are rostered to pilot but are only paid when flying may access... - Departmental Schemes
919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of job coaches employed in regard to the use of job coaches for disabled jobseekers as a way of improving access... - Departmental Staff
920. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employees in her Department and the bodies under the aegis of her Department who have been in receipt of a... - Departmental Schemes
921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements her Department has made to facilitate and enable parents of newborn children access children’s... - Social Welfare Payments
922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a basic social welfare payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Benefits
923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused the over 65 years benefit payment (details supplied); and if previous... - Departmental Data
924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of a carer’s allowance payment in County Wexford; and the breakdown of the... - Departmental Schemes
925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
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