Written answers
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the means for families in order that they can obtain the back-to-school allowance, owing to the escalating... - Enterprise Support Services
504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that have been received for the Enterprise Support Grant from businesses in counties Cavan and... - Social Welfare Payments
505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to awarding the back-to-school allowance to families who foster children with Tusla; and if... - Dental Services
506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the present status of the public dental treatment programme; and the steps that she is taking to ensure that persons are... - Social Welfare Payments
507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the serious implications that means testing and eligibility requirements for the... - Employment Schemes
508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given further consideration to her Department providing support with redundancy payments for LES and Jobs Club... - Departmental Reviews
509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she intends to publish her response to the report of the child maintenance review group; and if she will make a... - Pensions Reform
510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish her response to the report of the Pension Commission and recommendations before the Dáil... - Social Welfare Payments
511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to extend eligibility for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance considering the impact of the... - Social Welfare Schemes
512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the planned review to the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34629/22] - Social Welfare Payments
513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the instruction that is given to local community welfare officers regarding the exceptional needs' payment (details... - Employment Schemes
514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is giving consideration to or is requesting her Government colleagues to consider allowing persons on various... - Social Welfare Benefits
515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the extension of parents’ benefit from five to seven weeks will take effect; the number of parents who have... - Social Welfare Eligibility
516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has examined and costed the proposals in relation to means testing made by the Joint Oireachtas Committee... - Employment Schemes
518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schemes and supports that are available from her Department to help persons to return to work; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of introducing a cost of disability payment in line with the recommendations set out in... - Employment Schemes
521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will meet with representatives of workers affected by the loss of contacts for local employment scheme services; and... - Employment Support Services
522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to research that suggests changing the local employment scheme services from their current... - Disability Services
525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protocols that are in place to assist hearing impaired customers who are unable or inhibited by Covid restrictions and... - Social Welfare Benefits
526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has made any changes to the family income supplement scheme since she took office. [34033/22] - Health Services Staff
530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the south east regional drug and alcohol task force has not had a full-time coordinator for over two years;... - School Meals Programme
531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in providing free school meals for the 310 schools to be added to the DEIS programme in September 2022;... - Social Welfare Eligibility
532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting almost two years for the return of medical information to the... - Public Sector Pensions
535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff who are abated under her Department in accordance with the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and... - Social Welfare Benefits
536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an increase on a disability allowance payment will be applied for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the if back-to-school allowance will be paid to a person (details supplied). [38976/22] - Social Welfare Appeals
539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is proposed to limit the right of an appellant to the independent social welfare appeals office to seek and obtain an... - Social Welfare Eligibility
541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends on removing the cap on total credited contributions for home caring periods and the age cap on foster children... - Social Welfare Schemes
543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will exclude family means testing for persons who can qualify for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a disability related social protection payment in tabular form by the type of payment;... - Social Welfare Schemes
548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost if the gas or electricity allowance increased to €42 per month for persons in receipt of... - Departmental Staff
552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers employed in Cork in each of the past five years in tabular form. [39288/22] - Maternity Leave
553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to the provision of maternity leave and benefit; if she will ensure that parents can afford... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of a Covid-related payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Covid-19 Pandemic
555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons working from home or by way of other arrangement arising from Covid-19 throughout the country; and if... - Social Welfare Payments
557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of applicants who have been refused payment in respect of invalidity pension in each of the past five years;... - Social Welfare Appeals
558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently awaiting the outcome of appeal in respect of refusal of disability allowance; the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which INTREO continues to be involved in determination of fitness to work issues; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals
563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which oral hearings in respect of appeals against disallowance for various payments are up to date; and if she... - Social Welfare Payments
564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of social welfare payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - State Pensions
566. 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) will be reassessed following the... - Social Welfare Payments
567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for invalidity pension in the case of a person... - Social Welfare Appeals
568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an appeal by a person (details supplied); when a revised... - Social Welfare Payments
569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for a carer’s allowance will be reassessed in the case of a person (details supplied) given that they... - Social Welfare Eligibility
575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of eligibility for urgent assistance towards payment of a bill... - Departmental Data
576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance for 12 months or more in north Tipperary; and if she... - Citizens Information Services
585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the provision of Citizens' Information Services in County Wicklow; if her attention has been drawn to the lack... - Social Welfare Appeals
586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for social welfare benefit claims from applicants in County Wicklow that were granted and refused... - Social Welfare Schemes
587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to reform eligibility for supplementary welfare allowance to cover rent arrears; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated total cost of providing a once-off €10, €50 and €100 payment to recipients of each social... - Departmental Data
589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2019; and the projected number of social welfare... - Social Welfare Benefits
590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms of the means test for a qualified adult allowance will be adversely affected if the savings of a continuous...
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