Written answers
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes
1088. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the community employment supervisors remuneration deal; and if she will make a statement on the... - Employment Support Services
1089. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the local employment service; and... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1090. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the pandemic unemployment payment supports. [40981/21] - Employment Schemes
1091. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of the work placement experience programme. [41260/21] - Social Insurance
1092. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated revenue that would be generated in 2022 from increasing the rate of employers’ PRSI from 11.05 to... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1093. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person with four young children who is returning to full-time education who is currently in receipt of jobseeker's will... - Employment Support Services
1094. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way a payment per person model will benefit those most in need of employment supports with regard to the request for... - Social Welfare Benefits
1098. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 8 July 2021, the reason such a cost-analysis has not taken place to date in... - Employment Support Services
1103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection number of referrals her Department has made to each local employment service office in each of the years 2017 to 2020,... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those transitioning from the pandemic unemployment payment to a jobseeker’s payment will have to comply with the... - Social Welfare Benefits
1105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been cut-off rent supplement in each of the past five years. [39329/21] - Social Welfare Eligibility
1106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit will be adapted and made available for those who experience prolonged long-Covid... - Pensions Reform
1107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Pensions Commission will finalise its report; if a timeline is in place for same; and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Schemes
1108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims that have been made to her Department in respect of job clubs staff for enhanced redundancy payments;... - Social Welfare Benefits
1109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who had their disability allowance removed in each year since 2016; the number who had their... - Social Welfare Schemes
1110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a list of categories for removing a disability allowance will be provided; the number removed under each category since... - Pension Provisions
1114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39456/21] - Social Welfare Payments
1115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delays to jobseeker’s payments for self-employed preschool and primary teachers who are... - Employment Support Services
1116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to use private contractors to provide case officer staff to link in with participants and hosts taking part in the... - Public Services Card
1118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of public services cards that have expired and not been automatically replaced in 2021; the efforts being made to... - Departmental Communications
1120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the dedicated Houses of the Oireachtas lines of communication with her Department will be reopened; and if she will... - Disability Services
1121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can self-refer to an employability programme; if not, if the process is being revised; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Schemes
1123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of passenger journeys for which her Department compensated the licensed transport operators under the free travel... - Social Welfare Benefits
1126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase for the qualified child payment has stopped for dependants over 18 years of age; if so, the steps she is... - Civil Registration Service
1128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Civil Registration Service phoneline and email will be operational again; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Expenditure
1130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the anticipated cost to the Exchequer in 2022 of a waiver of waiting days on social welfare payments by category of payment;... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for illness benefit for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if... - Departmental Bodies
1132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the agencies and State organisations under her Department that are receiving State funding that do not have to declare... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and when they can expect a decision... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow the pandemic unemployment payment to remain at its current rate of €350 per week for persons... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position in relation to child benefit payments to EU citizens whose children reside elsewhere in the EU in the context... - Pension Provisions
1139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the provision of pensions or other beneficial payments for current and former community employment... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons awaiting determination of their application for the jobseeker’s allowance in County Clare; the... - Public Services Card
1142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) to receive their PPSN; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
1144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to change the system in which there is a euro per euro deduction in relation to payments of jobseeker’s... - Pensions Reform
1145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the Total Contributions Approach 2012 review for those effected by the 2012 rate band changes; and if she will... - Social Welfare Code
1146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of measures to address anomalies in the homemaker’s scheme for those who provided the majority of their... - Gender Recognition
1147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when legislation will be introduced to enable 16 and 17 year olds obtain a gender recognition certificate with parental... - Departmental Funding
1149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the last occasion on which a Department-wide review of all funding within her Department took place; the frequency of such... - Live Register
1150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the latest live register figures for County Kerry; the percentage change in the county since the Covid-19 peak; and if she... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is fair to cut from September 2021 onwards the only financial support for workers in the music and... - Social Welfare Benefits
1156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to extend the domestic violence emergency rent supplement scheme into 2022 and onwards in view of rising... - Youth Unemployment
1157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the present youth unemployment rates; the plans in place to tackle youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on... - Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
1159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and the HSE will provide funding to allow the charities that provide two soup runs in Dublin to remain in... - Social Welfare Benefits
1160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of broadening entitlement to the household benefits package to households in which a civil or... - Birth Certificates
1161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a copy of a birth certificate for a person (details supplied); and if arrangements will be... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on each pandemic unemployment payment band. [41233/21] - Social Welfare Rates
1165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of raising the payment on headline social welfare rates to €350 per week. [41235/21] - Social Welfare Payments
1167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of a one-off social welfare bonus of €1,000 for all essential workers who worked through... - State Pensions
1169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of ensuring the State contributory and non-contributory pensions are available to all those... - Departmental Budgets
1172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the moneys saved following the transfer of recipients of rent allowance to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS have then... - Social Welfare Payments
1173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of reinstating a concurrent payment of half-rate illness benefit and jobseeker’s benefit... - Living Wage
1183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of moving all social welfare claimants including pensioners to a living wage. [41255/21] - Social Welfare Payments
1184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason school secretaries are awaiting payment three-weeks after the closure of primary schools; the reason for the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons under the age of 25 years living in homeless accommodation will be awarded the full independent... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to technical glitches occurring for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment who were...
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