Written answers

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of disabled artists who fear the loss of social welfare payments and supports...
  • Employment Schemes
    482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department are extending the time for participants whose term has...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for a PPS number for Syrian, Afghani, Yazidi and Ukrainian programme refugees, respectively, in...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if guardianship supports will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24164/22]
  • Fuel Poverty
    488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance; the number of applications for fuel allowance; the number of refusals...
  • Equal Opportunities Employment
    490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
  • Artists' Remuneration
    491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that a person who qualifies for and is in receipt of the invalidity pension will not lose his or her...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
    493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24380/22]
  • Departmental Staff
    494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full year cost of recruiting four additional full-time medical assessors for her Department, in tabular form. [24386/22]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the disability allowance and the blind pension are treated differently in terms of the means allowed; the...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) is not entitled to the illness benefit given that he or she has been paying class...
  • Departmental Data
    497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff members who are currently employed to answer phone calls through the customer care line in the client...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is in receipt of the back to education allowance will be permitted to take...
  • Ukraine War
    500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department will ensure that the recipients of the proposed payment of €400 to households who offer...
  • Data Protection
    501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the development and implementation of new systems, by her Department, to process and retain applicants'...
  • Departmental Reports
    502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 22 March, the status of her Department's consideration of the recommendations...
  • Employment Schemes
    504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-establish the tripartite forum with an organisation (details supplied), trade unions and her Department on the...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to implement the agreement on the application of the 2008 Labour Court recommendation on...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that has been given to the provision of pension and maternity leave benefits for women farmers; and if she...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered index linking social protection payments in view of the fact that both Brexit and the war in Ukraine...
  • State Pensions
    508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to delivering a pension at 65 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18811/22]
  • Ukraine War
    509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department in conjunction with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment will establish a skills database in...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons availing of the fuel allowance by main social welfare payment; her plans to review eligibility and...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a specialist consultant report is required in addition to a letter from a general practitioner which clearly outlines a...
  • State Pensions
    513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for her decision on whether to accept the recommendations in the report of the Commission on Pensions; if she...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to a review of the income disregard in the means test for both the carer's allowance and the disability...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a late invalidity pension appeal will be accepted from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry following the...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPS number for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24781/22]
  • Maternity Leave
    518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing paid maternity leave for women working on farms; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • State Pensions
    519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing pension benefits for women working on farms; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Code
    520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to remove blank years from a person's contributions history if residing and working in another State, given...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if in-person medical assessments have resumed for the disablement benefit; if not, the reason therefor; and if she will make...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the waiting time for a decision in respect of applications for various social welfare payments has been...
  • Pension Provisions
    523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which applicants with insufficient contributions to qualify for the State pension (contributory) might have...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which she and her office continue to ensure the making of a basic payment to applicants of social welfare...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals being determined on a weekly basis; the number of appeals arising each week; and if she...
  • State Pensions
    527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision has been made for those retiring at 65 years of age; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the number of applications for various social welfare payments has fluctuated in the past 12 months; and...
  • Departmental Data
    529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of the State pension non-contributory in the past two years; the extent to which this number...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPS number for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24903/22]
  • Disability Services
    533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of funding a national advocacy service for people with disabilities in 2023 indicating the cost of a youth advocacy...
  • Employment Schemes
    534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assurances she can give persons working in local employment services and job clubs across the country that their jobs...
  • Departmental Funding
    535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can account for a 15% increase in calls to an organisation (details supplied) given that an extra 62,000 persons are...
  • Central Statistics Office
    537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the CSO report survey on income and living conditions. [24943/22]
  • Public Services Card
    538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for a public services card in 2021 and to date in 2022. [24944/22]

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