Written answers

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Social Insurance
    373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional amount of revenue that would be accrued if employer’s PRSI was increased by 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the free travel pass will be made available to persons who have epilepsy and are not entitled to Departmental payments...
  • Pension Provisions
    375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the provision of a pension scheme for community employment supervisors; and if such a scheme...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a full review of the case of a person (details supplied) will be undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Employment Support Services
    377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
  • Irish Language
    380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms that are in place to ensure that Irish language supports are provided as part of social protection services in...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will contact the UK authorities in order to expedite the required records of a person (details supplied); and if she...
  • Pensions Reform
    382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to change or review the way the State pension (contributory) is calculated since the changes that were...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the living alone allowance increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for jobseeker’s allowance in the case of a person (details...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the overpayments recouped from one parent family benefits in each of the years of 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form....
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schemes that currently exist in order to help adults with dyslexia; the reason such adults do not qualify for disability...
  • Pension Provisions
    388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount a recipient of a State pension contributory or non-contributory pension can earn without affecting their pension...
  • Social Welfare Code
    389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it appears that section 30E (1)(a) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended) penalises persons...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment who have transitioned to jobseekers’ payments;...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of or who is applying for a social welfare payment is obliged to get a Public Services Card given that...
  • School Meals Programme
    392. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools in Ballymun and Finglas that receive funding for the hot meals programme; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the death certificate for a person (details supplied) which their widow has been awaiting for four months since...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has applied and is entitled to a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the full rate of the child dependent payment will be paid to a person (details supplied) for their four children; if the...
  • Pensions Reform
    398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of pension auto-enrolment; the expected timescale for its introduction; if she expects an advance on the timescale...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot be added to their spouse’s contributory pension; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58801/21]
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if scholarship awards for PhD students are excluded from the means test for the one-parent family payment; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Rates
    402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review primary social welfare rates given they remain unchanged since 2018; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend eligibility for the fuel allowance to households in receipt of the working family payment; and if she...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial assistance that can be given to a person (details supplied). [58852/21]
  • Departmental Correspondence
    405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a document (details supplied); the date on which this document was received by her...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer’s support grant appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
  • Social Insurance
    407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can get a copy of their social insurance contributions with regard to determining eligibility...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has engaged with community employment supervisors to allow flexibility on the advertisement of additional...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) which is under appeal will be expedited and...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is reviewing the manner in which employment scheme referrals are currently provided to the various bodies...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59053/21]
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the fuel allowance is not payable to a household (details supplied) in which a spouse is in receipt of a long-term...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a working family payment claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [59102/21]

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