Written answers
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Eligibility
425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will investigate the possibility of increasing the income limit for pensioners when considering the fuel allowance in... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that artists and arts workers are supported through the pandemic unemployment payment until mass... - Social Welfare Eligibility
427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for jobs initiative scheme participants be included in the winter fuel scheme (details supplied.) [47466/21] - Grant Payments
431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the terms on which the €1,000 grant for short courses is being made available; and if there is a restriction on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering increasing the threshold of €100 over the equivalent rate of the State pension (contributory) as... - Employment Support Services
435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the work placement scheme will continue during 2022; and if so, the terms on which it will be made available. [47538/21] - Social Welfare Eligibility
436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms on which paternity benefit and parental benefit are paid are scheduled to change during 2022; and if so, the... - Social Welfare Benefits
437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application by a person (details supplied) for the working family payment has not been put into payment; when... - Community Welfare Services
439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers that work in County Cavan by office; the number of community welfare officers in the... - School Meals Programme
440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the funding for the school meals programme in a school (details supplied) can be increased to reflect the number of... - Social Welfare Benefits
442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - State Pensions
443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of any proposed change in calculating the State pension (contributory) moving from the total contributions... - Social Welfare Benefits
444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in processing an application for supplementary welfare in the case of a person (details supplied); and... - Social Welfare Appeals
445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for their carer’s allowance appeal; and if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits
446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider extending the duration of child benefit to last until a child has completed secondary school... - Civil Registration Service
450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a secular body is defined as one with 50 members or less with respect to the definition of a body permitted to... - School Meals Programme
451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans for a hot school meals programme expansion for 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47892/21] - Programme for Government
452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on... - Revenue Commissioners
453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if... - Agriculture Schemes
454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the depreciation rate for farm equipment and machinery to a standard 10% with regard to farm... - Social Welfare Eligibility
457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the assessable income limit for fuel allowance means test by 10% for a single person under... - Departmental Reports
458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to publish a report (details supplied); the reason for the delay in doing so to date; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits
459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 28 September 2021, the number of students who are in receipt of disability... - Social Welfare Eligibility
460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance will be extended to those in receipt of illness benefit experiencing fuel poverty who are unable to... - Social Welfare Appeals
462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a back to education appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine extending the telephone support allowance to those in receipt of the State pension (contributory) but not... - Dormant Accounts Fund
466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount of the additional €5 million that was made available through Dormant Accounts funding for carers... - Social Welfare Benefits
467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a companion travel pass will be issued to a claimant who has very limited mobility (details supplied); if the chief... - Employment Support Services
468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of local employment services being funded by her Department to deliver construction skills training; the location... - Social Welfare Eligibility
469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those receiving illness benefit will be considered for the fuel allowance and the double payment at Christmas,... - Personal Public Service Numbers
470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Eligibility
471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to refuse an invalidity pension can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will... - State Pensions
472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can be placed as a dependent on the pension payment of their spouse; and if she will make a...
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