Written answers
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expand the eligibility for the fuel allowance payment. [14837/22] - Pension Provisions
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projections for the annual collection of funds under an auto enrolment pension scheme; if it is proposed to deploy these... - Ukraine War
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that her Department is taking to support Ukrainians arriving in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the eligibility criteria for the fuel allowance to take those with occupational pensions into account. [14856/22] - Ukraine War
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the response of her Department to the Ukrainian war crisis; the measures that are being taken to ensure that all applications... - Social Welfare Rates
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to address the rate of jobseeker’s allowance for young people following her Department’s report... - Domestic Violence
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications, grants and refusals under new measures to assist victims of domestic violence to access rent... - Ukraine War
22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the resources that are being made available to local Intreo offices to help host families of Ukrainian individuals coming to... - Departmental Reports
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the recommendations relevant to her Department within the Cost of Disability in Ireland report; and if she will... - State Pensions
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timescale for the Government response to the recommendations of the Pensions Commission with particular reference to an... - Employment Schemes
25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the companies that have won the tenders for the provision of local employment services to date in the State;... - School Meals Programme
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the hot school meals programme. [14878/22] - Ukraine War
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional supports that will be allocated to each Intreo office for those arriving from Ukraine; and if she will make a... - Employment Support Services
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the tender process for all public employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14819/22] - Ukraine War
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the social welfare supports offered and accessed by persons and families that are fleeing the Ukrainian... - Employment Schemes
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to assist and support migrants to access employment; the way in which such measures are... - Social Welfare Benefits
31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons applying for assistance with energy costs under the exceptional needs payments scheme by applications,... - Employment Schemes
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of companies and employers that registered and took part in the Jobs in Ireland 2022 event which her Department... - Artists' Remuneration
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that disabled artists in receipt of the disability allowance or the blind pension can avail of the new... - Social Welfare Benefits
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she will take to urgently address spiralling coal costs to support families facing huge pressures; and if she will... - State Pensions
37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a dedicated State pension for long-term family carers to ensure that they receive a full pension... - Employment Schemes
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that her Department is taking to assist and support persons who find it difficult to gain employment; the way in... - Social Welfare Eligibility
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a commitment will be given to carry out an investigation into the high rate of refusal for the disability allowance; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she will take to prevent lone parents being forced into court to seek maintenance in order to retain income... - Departmental Strategies
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the planned priority measures for 2022 under the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Code
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will prepare options to expand the eligibility and rates for the fuel allowance given the rapid increase in fuel... - Pension Provisions
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021,... - Ukraine War
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social welfare payments including the living alone allowance and the fuel allowance will be impacted by those offering to... - Social Welfare Code
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to an additional bonus fuel allowance payment given the dramatic increase in fuel prices; and... - State Pensions
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she will take in relation to the recent review of pension age that recommended not moving the pension age to... - Ukraine War
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role that local Intreo offices are playing in facilitating Ukrainians coming to Ireland under the Temporary Protection... - Employment Schemes
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress regarding implementation of Budget 2022 measures to support employment opportunities for people with... - Regulatory Bodies
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has made any contact with the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities in respect of a moratorium on disconnections.... - Social Welfare Code
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends increasing the payment of the energy element of the household benefits package in order that the real... - Social Welfare Schemes
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to amend the back to education scheme payments to take into account time spent on the pandemic unemployment... - Commissions of Investigation
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of her Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each... - Employment Support Services
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 3 February 2022, the details of any analysis carried out to date by her Department... - Pension Provisions
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the pensions auto-enrolment system including plans to consult with the general public; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Code
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to index linking social welfare payments which would help mitigate the impact of inflation.... - State Pensions
60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is preparing to make provision for the roll-back on the decision to increase the retirement age; and if she... - Departmental Strategies
62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for developing a communications campaign to highlight the ability of people to retain key social welfare supports... - Emergency Accommodation
64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a policy in which families living in emergency accommodation can access exceptional needs payments to pay... - Social Welfare Benefits
65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to financially recognise the efforts of those in receipt of the carer’s allowance during the Covid-19... - Covid-19 Pandemic
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current procedure to avail of enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14822/22] - Social Welfare Code
67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is carrying out means assessment reviews of carers given that the new arrangements of Budget 2022 are being... - State Pensions
70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to including foster carers under the State pension for long-term carers recommendation from... - Employment Schemes
71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to carry out a review of the JobPath scheme when it ceases; if findings from a review will be used to inform... - Departmental Contracts
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the contracts with all third-party operators that engage on behalf of her Department in 2021 and to date in 2022;... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will rectify the situation in which those on pandemic unemployment payments over the course of the pandemic do not now... - Employment Rights
78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department is taking to uncover, address and reduce bogus self-employment from a social insurance perspective,... - Employment Schemes
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the impact of the increase in the wage subsidy scheme for people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the... - State Pensions
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report of the Commission on Pensions; the expected timescale for Government decisions on its... - Employment Schemes
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of roles that have been filled in the Work Placement Experience Programme; the cost of the scheme to the Exchequer... - Social Welfare Benefits
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to including assistance for broadband connection as part of the household benefits package; and... - Departmental Reports
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and... - Social Welfare Benefits
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid by her Department in 2021 and to date in 2022 under the heading of medical equipment; and the breakdown by...
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