Written answers

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Ukraine War
    1069. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has undertaken an assessment of needs created by the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; and the contingency...
  • Employment Support Services
    1071. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the WALK providing equal employment routes, PEER, employment support service model in all 26...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    1072. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department has failed to honour an enhanced redundancy agreement for...
  • Departmental Communications
    1073. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department provides pre-paid envelopes to persons who receive written requests or who are required to provide...
  • Departmental Data
    1075. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseekers in County Kerry who have been referred to JobPath and Turas Nua in each of the years since its...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1076. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of late applications for parent's benefit since its introduction; the number of appeals based on refusal for...
  • Pension Provisions
    1078. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her Department’s engagement with the Spanish pensions office to obtain information regarding the work...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there have been delays to the additional €100 fuel allowance payment; the number of eligible recipients who have...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1080. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to refuse a carer’s support grant in respect of their father can be reviewed with urgency in the case...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    1081. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the injury benefit appeal case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; the reason for the delay in making a...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the invalidity pension appeal of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved given the fact that the...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to increase payments to those on the job initiative schemes; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
  • Interest Rates
    1087. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of her Department or that receive funding from her...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1088. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a period of grace can be applied to the disability allowance for a parent in receipt of the allowance when the child...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    1091. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing correspondence from her Department in a simpler fashion, particularly for...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1092. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the free electricity allowance of €35 under the household benefits package to reflect...
  • Departmental Staff
    1093. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any former Secretaries General are seconded from her Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment;...
  • Employment Schemes
    1094. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of JobPath participants who have gained sustained employment for 13 weeks; 26 weeks; 39 weeks; and 52 weeks...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1097. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
  • Ukraine War
    1098. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a disparity in the rate of social protection payments available to adult Ukrainian refugees based on age; and if...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1099. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance payment will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
  • State Pensions
    1103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision on their application for the State pension...
  • Departmental Data
    1105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments in relation to help with fuel bills that have been made in each of the years 2016...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the entitlements of a certain category of pensioners (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
  • State Pensions
    1110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for a State pension (contributory) in the case of a person (details supplied) can be reassessed following the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is fair that a parent of a child who is incapacitated is only receiving €46 per week in...
  • Departmental Policies
    1115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; the number of its commitments that have been...
  • Departmental Data
    1116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of applications for and the awarding of a disability allowance by county in...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up-to-date position in relation to parents' benefit; when the next extension is due to come into place; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    1120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in relation to their disability allowance payment;...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expand the children’s allowance scheme to include all 18-year-old secondary school children; and if she...
  • Departmental Policies
    1124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the social welfare trap that is preventing homecarers from working extra hours; and if she will make a...
  • State Pensions
    1125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a pre-pension scheme in other European Union countries in which employees working with...
  • Data Protection
    1126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal framework that enables her Department to share information on persons seeking employment with private companies...
  • Citizens Information Services
    1127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if sufficient funding was allocated by her Department to the national Citizens Information Board to allow for the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the disability allowance in the context of the higher cost of living to allow its recipients to...
  • Ukraine War
    1129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the materials that have been translated into Ukrainian with information as to accessing State services and supports; if such...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the refusal of disability allowance of a person (details supplied); if the inability to take up work was...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    1133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for carer’s benefit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    1138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Ukraine War
    1139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Ukrainian refugees who have been issued with PPS numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Arts Policy
    1140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on her Department's involvement in the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; and if she will make a...
  • Ukraine War
    1141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to ensure that Ukrainian refugees have access to social protection supports upon their arrival...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are available to support a young person who is on JobPath with an organisation (details supplied) and is...
  • Departmental Policies
    1145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the treatment of savings to better reflect the real income being derived from savings instead...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that the information that is outstanding relative to the claim for an increase in pension for a...
  • Care Services
    1147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider improving measures within the social welfare system to support existing foster carers and to encourage...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the detailed basis on which overpayment has been assessed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Data
    1152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants who applied for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance in each year for the past five...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    1153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the amount and nature of the issuing of discretionary payments at social welfare offices in County...

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