Written answers
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on benefit payments are still not eligible for the fuel allowance. [51021/22] - Social Welfare Offices
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional staff have been recruited or seconded to community welfare sections in INTREO offices to deal with the... - Pension Provisions
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Energy Prices
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the instructions that have been issued to community welfare officers in relation to people who present to them seeking... - Social Welfare Benefits
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review means testing for the carer’s allowance including a review of the removal of means testing... - Rural Schemes
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase the number of participants on rural social schemes to meet the demand for the services delivered by... - Pension Provisions
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department remain sensitive to any issues arising from the availability of an adequate pension... - Energy Prices
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which additional needs payments will be used to ensure that those with pay-as-you-go electricity meters do not face... - Social Welfare Benefits
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will improve the criteria for the free fuel allowance in circumstances where a family member returns to live on a... - School Meals Programme
22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the school meals programme; the timeline for the completion and publication of the review; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will pre-process applications for fuel allowance for new applicants who will qualify in January 2023 as a... - Social Welfare Rates
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the €2 increase in the qualified child payment is sufficient to tackle child poverty in the... - Social Welfare Benefits
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will bring forward the extension of eligibility for the fuel allowance, currently not due to come into effect until... - Social Welfare Rates
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the evidence on which she based the increase of €2 per week, 30 cent per day for the qualified child increase for... - Budget 2023
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the announcement made to support carers in Budget 2023; if she will also provide an update on... - Legislative Measures
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to introduce reforms to social welfare means testing in the Social Welfare Bill 2022; and if she will make a... - Pension Provisions
31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the intended timeframe to introduce legislation underpinning the provision of pensions to carers. [50586/22] - Community Employment Schemes
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the responsibility that her Department has in making changes to the Community Employment Procedures Manual; and if she will... - Departmental Policies
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the Commission on Taxation and Welfare’s recommendation that Government undertakes a regular... - Budget 2023
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has read a post-Budget 2023 analysis (details supplied) that highlights that after the Q4 2022 cost-of-living measures... - Social Welfare Benefits
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the significant backlog in her Department for the exceptional needs payment that many... - Departmental Properties
36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to upgrade the INTREO centre in Ennis, County Clare, or to recruit additional staff for this valued... - Social Welfare Benefits
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the fuel allowance has not been extended to working family payment recipients. [50629/22] - Disability Services
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a key conclusion in a report (details supplied) that “measures to address the additional costs of... - Social Welfare Benefits
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to allowing increased mortgage costs as part of the means test for carers; and if she will make... - Community Employment Schemes
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform the CE and Tús schemes, in order to make them more appealing to potential candidates; and if she will... - Budget 2023
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if applicants for the fuel allowance under the new threshold guidelines announced in Budget 2023, who will now qualify for the... - Disability Services
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on work underway in her Department examining long-term disability income supports; and if she... - Social Welfare Benefits
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing the means test for the carer's allowance or raising the thresholds to allow more persons to... - Energy Prices
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budget that has been allocated to community welfare officers in relation to those seeking assistance due to an inability... - Citizens Information Services
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the Citizens Information Board remains a fully functional service despite the recent changes to the... - Social Welfare Benefits
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that those on so-called short-term social welfare payments will also receive the Christmas bonus and the... - Budget 2023
53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the changes to the fuel allowance scheme as announced in Budget 2023; the additional number... - Rural Schemes
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had any discussions with the Department of Rural and Community Development with a view to addressing the anomaly... - Budget 2023
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the failure to increase social welfare rates, in particular for single parents, above the rate of... - Social Welfare Payments
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are being taken to deal with the long processing times for carer's allowance; carer's benefit, invalidity... - Food Poverty
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that her Department is taking to tackle the issue of food poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Budget 2023
61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline eligibility for the working family payment; and the impact the changes will make to this payment in... - Social Welfare Payments
62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the Commission on Taxation and Welfare's recommendation that the individualisation of payments made to... - Departmental Policies
63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the latest Central Statistics Office figures which state that one in ten households cannot afford to pay for... - Social Welfare Benefits
64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the implementation of the expansion of the fuel allowance scheme for persons over 70 years of age; and if she... - Community Employment Schemes
65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of any analysis carried out by her Department into providing support with redundancy payments... - Cost of Living Issues
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it continues to be possible to address particularly sensitive issues in respect of family income and the... - Pension Provisions
68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the right of community employment supervisors to secure pension entitlements; and if she will make a statement on... - Domestic Violence
69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the social protection supports currently being considered to improve the overall departmental... - Social Welfare Benefits
70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding her Department’s modelling of the impacts of the increase in the thresholds of the working... - Departmental Policies
71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her plans regarding recognising the additional cost of disability; the way that she intends... - Social Welfare Benefits
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the means test for disability allowance in order that as well as assessing income the... - Community Employment Schemes
75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the current tendering out of a service (details supplied) will be subject to any review or oversight by her Department in... - Departmental Policies
77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the Commission on Taxation and Welfare's recommendation that working-age payments should be reformed to move... - Social Welfare Benefits
78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the eligibility criteria for carers and provide further financial supports to those who provide full-time... - Public Services Card
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to increase staffing resources in INTREO centres to meet demand for public services card appointments; and... - Social Welfare Benefits
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to amend the income disregard, the eligibility criteria and the schemes which attract the disregard in the... - Budget 2023
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports for pensioners announced in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50531/22] - Nursing Homes
88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has a policy to take excess payments made in respect of the fair deal scheme into account as a result of... - Community Employment Schemes
90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the time allowed on community employment for those aged over 50 years. [50730/22] - Departmental Policies
91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the ongoing cost of disability can be adequately addressed through one-off payments; and if she will... - Employment Schemes
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an access-to-work scheme will be introduced for deaf and hard-of-hearing persons; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Policies
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he proposes to establish a new metric for gathering data on childhood poverty in Ireland; and if she will make a statement...
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