Written answers
Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52815/21] - Pension Provisions
572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the allowable periods for the homemaker’s scheme qualifies as contributions for the purposes of meeting the... - Community Employment Schemes
573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason community employment schemes are being closed down (details supplied); if this policy will be reversed; and if... - Fuel Prices
574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 12 October 2021, if the part-time job incentive scheme will be included as an... - Disability Services
575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the list of disregards available to those with a disability in respect of their social welfare benefits.... - Social Welfare Benefits
578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the special access to the rent supplement for victims of domestic violence beyond the end of... - Fuel Prices
579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which those who receive the fuel allowance in two payments will be affected by the increase in the fuel allowance;... - Flexible Work Practices
580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when local Intreo offices will return to their pre-Covid-19 activities; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that... - Fuel Prices
581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons who come off illness benefit and take-up a scheme lose their entitlement to the fuel allowance; and if she... - Social Welfare Payments
582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date in the determination of an application for a partial capacity benefit in the case of a person... - Artists' Remuneration
585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the communication she has had with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to devise a scheme to... - Personal Public Service Numbers
586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52293/21] - Disability Services
587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for disability allowance, carer’s allowance, invalidity pension and domiciliary... - Social Welfare Payments
588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of persons that will benefit during the 2021-2022 fuel season from the allocations in Budget 2022; the... - Agriculture Schemes
589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the manner in which Budget 2022 changed farm assist with regard to agri-environmental disregards; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Schemes
590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to include recipients of the benefit payment... - Social Welfare Payments
591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 12 October 2021 and 630 of 19 October 2021, the reason she refuses to outline... - Personal Public Service Numbers
593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a PPS number on application. [52509/21] - Social Welfare Eligibility
594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance will be extended to recipients of the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Schemes
595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce statutory compassionate leave in the event of a close family bereavement (details supplied); and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for the one-parent family payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Education Schemes
598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of recommendation 7.9 of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection Report on the Position of Lone... - Civil Registration Service
599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the delays experienced by new parents when trying to register their children at the Dublin... - Social Welfare Payments
600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has had their adult dependent allowance stopped. [52717/21] - Pension Provisions
601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce a scheme whereby those who worked as family carers are recognised through a contributory type... - Social Welfare Payments
602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rule which saw foster parents unable to access child benefit for six months as laid out in the Social Welfare... - Social Welfare Appeals
604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a back to education appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will... - Pension Provisions
605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the State pension (contributory) who joined the scheme post 1 September 2012 with in excess of 2,080... - Social Welfare Appeals
608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision to refuse an application for the back to education allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) can be... - Community Employment Schemes
609. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if such persons could be offered an extension of offer and... - Social Welfare Benefits
610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the recourse there will be for partners of persons who are high risk and who cannot go back to work due to putting their... - Social Welfare Appeals
611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if measures are being considered to support workers who remain on the pandemic unemployment payment for the foreseeable... - Social Welfare Payments
613. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53114/21] - Departmental Contracts
615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of existing contracts of an indefinite period entered into by her Department prior to the enactment of the EU... - Social Welfare Payments
616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied). [53262/21] - Social Welfare Benefits
617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if long-Covid will be considered for inclusion on the list of prescribed diseases for the occupational injuries benefit... - Social Welfare Schemes
619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the requirements of the supplementary welfare allowance assistance towards funeral expenses to ensure that... - Registration of Deaths
621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to amend the legislation concerning the stillbirth register to enable bereaved parents opt out of the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
624. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on increasing the amount of capital excluded in the calculation of eligibility for the fuel allowance for persons... - Departmental Reports
626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 14 January 2021, the position regarding the evaluation of the gateway scheme; if... - Hospice Services
627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a project (details supplied); if the research has been completed and published as planned for October 2021; and... - Departmental Policies
628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when in-person oral hearings will resume; the date on which the matter was last reviewed; when it will be reviewed again; and... - Social Welfare Appeals
629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of oral hearings that took place in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 by county; and the number of...
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