Written answers

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Fuel Poverty
    249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons in receipt of the benefit for a 65 year-old payment are not entitled to the fuel allowance payment; if she...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the benefit for a 65 year-old payment will receive the Christmas bonus; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the eligibility criteria that bar persons in receipt of illness benefit from receiving the fuel allowance...
  • Pension Provisions
    252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her engagement in dealing with the issue of pensions for community scheme supervisors; and if she will make a...
  • Youth Unemployment
    253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to tackle youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48640/21]
  • School Meals Programme
    254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48641/21]
  • Community Employment Schemes
    255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the decision to change the tendering process to "for profit" as in the case of the recent...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Rates
    260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the income limits for the fuel allowance in budget 2022 given the rising cost of fuel prices. [48781/21]
  • Departmental Data
    261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints made under her Department'’s customer charter against social welfare inspectors in each of...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered broadening the fuel allowance qualifying conditions to include those partaking in the community...
  • General Register Office
    265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time for registering a birth and registering a death; and the number of applications awaiting...
  • Departmental Data
    266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of child benefit; and the number of applications currently waiting to be...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of PPS numbers; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed....
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the offices under her Department that remain closed to the public due to Covid-19. [48948/21]
  • Civil Registration Service
    269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the civil registration office in Dublin remains closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48949/21]
  • Child Poverty
    270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures undertaken to prevent and alleviate poverty during childhood; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Community Employment Schemes
    271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter relating to the community employment scheme (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement...
  • Departmental Policies
    272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to respond to the various demands received in pre-budget 2022 submissions...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current and expected position regarding the age at which applicants may qualify for the old age pension in the future,...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department can accommodate earlier processing of appeals in respect of all categories of payment...
  • Social Welfare Rates
    275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can foresee an increase in the various allowances operated by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • State Pensions
    276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the State pension, contributory; the extent to which this number is likely to...
  • Departmental Data
    277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of invalidity pension; the extent to which the number has fluctuated over the past two years...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals filed in respect of decisions made under the headings of jobseeker’s allowance, disability...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons aged 100 years or more in Ireland and in receipt of an appropriate social welfare payment or have...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision has been made for public sector employees reaching mandatory retirement age prior...

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