Written answers
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes
69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the agreed gratuity payments will be paid to CE supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53771/22] - Budget 2023
77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the various supports for carers in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58868/22] - State Pensions
78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a State pension solution for long-term family carers, including progress on a family... - Social Welfare Benefits
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current wait time for a supplementary welfare allowance to be decided; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Rates
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social protection incomes will be raised by €20 instead of €12 given the high cost of living and in view of... - Budget 2023
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she remains satisfied that all critical issues anticipated in Budget 2023 have been adequately dealt with... - Social Welfare Benefits
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on making the back-to-education allowance available to persons more than once, for instance, for women returning to... - Departmental Policies
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions that she has taken to implement the recommendations within the Indecon cost of disability report; and if she will... - Community Welfare Services
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-allocate community welfare officers back into the community in which they were originally placed, if not... - Child Poverty
85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is concerned about the impact of the rising cost of living on child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she intends to announce the agricultural schemes which will be disregarded with regard to farm assist scheme under the... - Social Welfare Code
88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase the income disregard for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Rates
89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department uses data modelling to assess the impact of social welfare payment rates; the way that data is... - State Pensions
90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of self-employed contributors who do not have sufficient contributions to warrant the payment of a pension; if she... - Departmental Policies
91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recommendations have been made by the inter-departmental committee set-up to look at the Indecon cost of disability report;... - Social Welfare Benefits
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider providing free travel passes to all persons with epilepsy who are not in receipt of a qualifying social... - Departmental Policies
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she intends to carry out a consultation process as part of her Department’s work on addressing the cost of... - International Protection
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that she is supporting refugees and those who are seeking international protection to gain employment; and if she will... - Social Welfare Rates
95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale of determining qualified child increases of €2 for children aged under and over 12 years given the... - Social Welfare Benefits
96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the various supports for pensioners in County Kerry in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Policies
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on reforming the stillbirth registration process [59051/22] - Social Welfare Code
98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends reforming incrementally the means testing that applies to many social welfare schemes to make it more equitable... - Cost of Living Issues
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the various cost-of-living lump sum payments which are being administered by her Department;... - Departmental Data
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons who applied for the carer's allowance in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022. [58970/22] - Social Welfare Offices
101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has any plans to review the operation of Intreo offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59126/22] - Social Welfare Benefits
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons on long-term illness benefit for 12 months or longer will receive the Christmas bonus payment; when the bonus will... - State Pensions
104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to increase the pension entitlements of full-time family carers. [59052/22] - Domestic Violence
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing a dedicated exceptional needs’ payment for costs related to persons fleeing domestic... - Irish Sign Language
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the voucher scheme for users of Irish sign language to access free ISL and English interpreting for social, educational... - Budget 2023
107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that she is taking to identify persons who were on disability allowance to change due to training/education... - Departmental Strategies
108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work that her Department has carried out to increase work capacity among vulnerable cohorts including those in addiction... - Social Welfare Benefits
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the processing of additional needs’ payment applications; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the difference between the health qualifications to qualify for the invalidity pension and the disability allowance both... - Social Welfare Benefits
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the €500 once-off payment to people with a disability to include disabled persons who have... - Social Welfare Code
113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the regulations around the back-to-school allowance to ensure that the allowance is available to a parent... - School Meals Programme
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase the funding for the school meals programme to take into account the increase in the costs of... - Social Welfare Payments
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Christmas bonus 2022 will be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59110/22] - Social Welfare Code
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the threshold increase for the working family payment will come into effect. [59079/22] - Social Welfare Benefits
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that those in receipt of illness benefit were not awarded a double payment in line with other welfare schemes; and... - Fuel Poverty
118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is concerned at the level of fuel poverty this winter in spite of the additional one-off payments made available by... - Community Employment Schemes
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if participants on CE schemes with a disability will be included in the €500 top-up for people with disabilities; and... - Budget 2023
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the supports for families in Budget 2023; the impact that the changes she is making will have in respect... - Social Welfare Code
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce unemployment benefit based upon the previous employment income of a person. [59078/22] - Social Welfare Payments
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who are on long-term illness benefit for 12 months or longer will receive the Christmas bonus payment; and if she... - Community Employment Schemes
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is intended to bring the pay levels of CE supervisors in line with other public sector employees with similar... - Departmental Policies
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will be bringing forward a new customer charter and customer action plan; and if she will make a statement... - Departmental Data
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the trends in the number seeking jobseeker payments; the number who are being facilitated into pathways... - Budget 2023
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the various supports for people with disabilities in Budget 2023; the way that this aligns with ongoing... - Social Welfare Eligibility
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria for fuel allowance to ensure that it is available to all recipients of social... - Social Welfare Rates
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the rural social scheme top-up of €5 announced in Budget 2023 to €20 to keep pace with... - Social Welfare Appeals
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the current waiting times at the appeals office and if additional resources will be allocated to it; and... - Domestic Violence
135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently review cases whereby victims of domestic and coercive abuse who are accessing refuge services but who do... - Social Welfare Benefits
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the back-to-work enterprise allowance in 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of these... - Social Welfare Code
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing the means test for carer’s allowance in the case of a parent who gives up full-time...
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