Written answers
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Departmental Legal Cases
875. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of legal cases her Department faced in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the amount spent in settlements, legal costs and... - Social Welfare Benefits
876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for the jobseeker’s allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - State Pensions
877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 20 October 2021, the number of full rate State pension (contributory) approved... - Social Welfare Benefits
878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will be reviewing the amount given to those on the household benefits package for their fuel given the... - Pension Provisions
879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) who wishes to access their pension contributions following... - Social Welfare Benefits
880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans there are to provide access to illness benefit for the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the... - Registration of Births
881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason women who were previously married but subsequently obtained a divorce are being asked to secure the signature of... - Departmental Reports
882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the response of her Department to the findings of the Cost of Disability in Ireland research report; the plans that will be... - Social Welfare Benefits
883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure that can be followed by a person (details supplied) who is having difficulty obtaining a completed UP80 form to... - Social Welfare Schemes
885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Departmental Schemes
886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the opportunities available under the jobpath scheme and or other Departmental schemes for persons to retrain in green... - Departmental Staff
887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if extra staffing and resources will be put in place to deal with the backlog of birth, death and marriage restrictions in... - Social Welfare Benefits
888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered expanding the qualifying criteria for the fuel allowance payment to include those who must continue to... - Personal Public Service Numbers
889. 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.... - State Pensions
890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are provisions planned for making contributory State pensions more eligible to persons who have worked for many... - Social Welfare Benefits
891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider raising the income threshold for the fuel allowance in order that persons living alone who are in... - Departmental Data
892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of days in each month that a community welfare officer was in the office in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan to... - Departmental Reviews
902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timetable for the child maintenance review group to report in relation to child maintenance; if a draft report will be... - Social Welfare Benefits
903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amendments that have been made to the calculation of assessable income for self-employed persons or the spouses of... - State Pensions
906. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address matters raised in correspondence in relation to a person (details supplied); the options that may be... - Departmental Schemes
907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will immediately remove the means testing on the humanitarian assistance towards flood damage scheme for families... - Pension Provisions
909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the income from a person (details supplied) can be disregarded when reviewing the non-contributory pension award; and if... - Departmental Data
910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to Turas Nua in each county in 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the... - Employment Schemes
911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the JobPath service to the State in 2021. [1108/22] - Departmental Data
913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown by county for supplementary welfare allowance applications in 2021; the number of applications awarded; the... - Social Welfare Benefits
916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 409 of 30 November 20221, if a domiciliary care allowance application by a person... - State Pensions
917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on an issue (details supplied); if she has plans to address the issue of a system of pension entitlements for... - Social Welfare Appeals
918. 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 Benefits
919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Personal Public Service Numbers
923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if advice will be provided in relation to a US citizen (details supplied) who is living in Ireland with their Irish spouse;... - Pension Provisions
924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is intended to introduce a national auto-enrolment pension scheme for employees; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to support persons with long Covid; the social protection payments that will be made available for persons with... - Departmental Data
927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of consistent poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, County... - Departmental Reviews
999. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by her in tabular form; and the date by... - Social Media
1037. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on social media by her Department and agencies under her remit in 2021; and the platforms the monies were... - Departmental Contracts
1038. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on consultancy services by her Department in 2021; the reason for each consultancy; and the name of the... - Social Welfare Schemes
1039. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a disability allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim;... - School Meals Programme
1040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assistance that is given to schools to operate the hot meals programmes given that no school in Ballymun, Dublin 11 has... - Departmental Contracts
1041. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of all client and or customer-facing and or orientated services that her Department provide... - Social Welfare Payments
1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views in relation to returning to signing on at post offices and if this would increase the risk for recipients and post... - Departmental Communications
1043. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the dedicated TD helpline has been suspended in the illness benefit section; if this can be reinstated as a... - Employment Schemes
1044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the matters that were identified for improvement from phase 1 of the tender process for regional employment services which... - Departmental Data
1045. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance applications refused in the past year; the number of applications made; and if she... - Death Certificates
1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there have been changes to the way a person registers the death of a family member such as changes in an extension of the... - Departmental Data
1048. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the text in a document (details supplied) released under data protection legislation by a company also forms a part of... - Employment Schemes
1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment placement will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she... - Social Welfare Schemes
1050. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress she has made to date with her counterparts at European Union level regarding the extending and or harmonisation... - Departmental Data
1051. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of increase for persons participating in the part-time job incentive scheme with regard to the €5 rate... - Employment Schemes
1052. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to protect the not-for-profit local employment services sector, in addition to a related matter... - Departmental Programmes
1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulty faced by persons attempting to access appointments with registration... - Departmental Policies
1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason many persons who were on the pandemic unemployment payment and being transitioned to the jobseeker’s... - Departmental Data
1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of existing recipients that sought a review of their rate of the pandemic unemployment payment; the number that... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1056. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 14 December 2021, the overall number of applications to the Covid-19 enhanced... - Public Sector Staff
1057. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of public sector workers under her remit by sectors (details supplied) in each of the local electoral areas in... - Social Welfare Schemes
1060. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and... - Social Welfare Payments
1061. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payment for bank holidays will be extended to causal jobseekers who don’t receive payment from their employers;... - Departmental Data
1062. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that PAYE and PRSI payments paid by or on behalf of undocumented workers can be counted... - Citizens Information Services
1063. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the opening hours of each Citizen’s Information centre in County Kerry in tabular form; the position regarding the... - Birth Certificates
1064. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for the registration of a birth (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
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