Written answers

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider making available financial assistance to families to assist with extra food costs for those suffering...
  • Prison Service
    262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given any consideration to allowing members of the Prison Service recruited post-1995 to work a certain number of...
  • Departmental Contracts
    263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm the contracts that her Department has with top security. [49262/22]
  • Departmental Bodies
    265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the name, function and establishment date of all the organisations and agencies that are funded by her Department; the number...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for the fuel allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 27 September 2022, if she will clarify the approach taken as regards access to...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be eligible for the fuel allowance on the basis that they are currently on the...
  • Fuel Poverty
    270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there have been any changes in the fuel allowance for jobs initiative scheme participants to assist with fuel poverty....
  • Covid-19 Pandemic
    271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to recognise Covid-19 or long-Covid as an occupational illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • State Pensions
    272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 27 September 2022, if a series of issues in relation to the pension payment will...
  • Social Welfare Code
    273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the changes in the income threshold for the fuel allowance in Budget 2023 will come into effect. [49232/22]
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason in relation to a back-to-school allowance decision for a person (details supplied) it is stated things are means...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider an extension to child benefit payments for parents who continue to have children in education after the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite the outstanding payment for jobseeker’s benefit for a person (details supplied).; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Offices
    278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a service that will signpost people to their entitlements under social welfare, particularly for vulnerable...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will review a decision on a disallowing a disability allowance claim by a person (details supplied) on the...
  • Social Welfare Code
    280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends changing the means testing rules in relation to assessing the increase for a dependent adult of a contributory...
  • Citizens Information Services
    281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes that she has made to the availability of the Citizens Advice Service nationally since she came into office; the...
  • Rural Schemes
    282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that supervisors on the rural social scheme cannot continue in employment until they are 70 years of age, as is...
  • State Pensions
    283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date until which persons must be in receipt of invalidity pension in order to qualify for the one-off payment; if persons...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to increase payments to community employment scheme participants to take up work on a scheme and...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to acknowledge foster children as dependants to qualify carers for the one-parent family payment; and...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to allow increased mortgage repayments, due to higher interest rates, to be factored into the means test...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered a small tax credit for qualifying families who may have children with complex special needs in relation...

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