Written answers
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide clarification on a matter in relation to a pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Community Employment Schemes
388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the gratuity payment to community employment supervisors who have applied has been awarded; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of exceptional needs' payment application in the case of a person (details... - Personal Public Service Numbers
390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58701/22] - Social Welfare Benefits
391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if fuel allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied). [58747/22] - Social Welfare Schemes
398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the free travel scheme to persons with epilepsy; and if she will make a... - Budget 2023
399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the various supports for persons with disabilities in Budget 2023; the way that this aligns with ongoing... - Social Welfare Eligibility
400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the fuel allowance was discontinued in the case of a person (details supplied); and if the income threshold... - State Pensions
401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that foster parents and carers are not entitled to the State pension if she is giving consideration to addressing... - Social Welfare Benefits
402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the maximum pension benefits including the increase for a qualified adult are now being paid in full to persons (details... - Community Welfare Services
405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are being made available to community welfare officers in counties Cavan and Monaghan, given the increase... - State Pensions
406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount of overpayments of contributory and non-contributory old age pension paid to persons following their death... - Social Welfare Benefits
407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); when the claim was received by her Department and when a... - Social Welfare Offices
408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to parliamentary question Nos. 614 of 5 July, 617 of 12 July, 1212 and 1259 of 26 July 2022, if she will provide an... - Social Welfare Benefits
409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on disability benefit were excluded from receiving the once-off payment of €500 cost-of-living... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated total amount in euro that was allegedly taken in fraudulent or suspected fraudulent pandemic unemployment... - State Pensions
413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the State pension (non-contributory) for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Public Services Card
415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has feedback on the number of applications online to complete application for the public services card that result in... - Social Welfare Benefits
416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Clare in receipt of the fuel allowance at the end of 2020, at the end of 2021 and the figure... - Dental Services
417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is eligible for dental services under the treatment scheme; and if she will... - State Pensions
418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) has had their State pension (non-contributory) reduced; if this will be reviewed;... - Medical Aids and Appliances
419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who received a grant to purchase a hearing aid under her Department’s medical appliances scheme... - Social Welfare Benefits
420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Irish Language
421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is the option to engage with the Department through Irish under current legislation; and if so, if she will direct... - Social Welfare Benefits
422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59107/22] - Community Employment Schemes
425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a former community employment, CE, supervisor (details supplied) who had to retire early on health grounds and... - Social Welfare Code
426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of domiciliary care allowance applications that are approved on first application, appeal and any subsequent... - Community Employment Schemes
428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that recipients of disability allowance, blind pension or invalidity pension who are on community employment... - Social Welfare Benefits
429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for fuel allowance in the case of a person (details supplied);... - Departmental Staff
432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of access officers responsible for providing or arranging for and co-ordinating assistance and guidance to people... - Social Welfare Benefits
433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether departmental guidelines were not intended to have the adverse consequences that have occurred in the... - Social Welfare Appeals
436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) that was lodged in respect of a domiciliary care allowance will be accepted given... - Community Employment Schemes
438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her engagement with stakeholders regarding the provision of an occupational pension for community employment supervisors; and... - Social Welfare Payments
440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of exceptional needs payments under the supplementary welfare allowance paid in October 2021 and October 2022;... - Social Welfare Benefits
441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which documentation, including medical evidence, has been furnished to her Department in connection with the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who has been living alone in Ireland for 19 years and who is in receipt of €215 per week in... - Social Welfare Benefits
443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on a disability allowance to be completed; and if she will make a... - Departmental Correspondence
453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence of 28 October 2022 with her office (details supplied); and if she will... - Social Welfare Eligibility
454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly whereby participants on social schemes who are eligible for the Christmas bonus but happen to... - Social Welfare Benefits
455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance section 317 review (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals
457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the appeal submitted by this Deputy on behalf of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved given the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person applying for fuel allowance has to meet all four conditions in relation to who they reside with, or if satisfying... - Social Welfare Code
461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to making the recent lump sum disability support payment an annual payment; considering... - Social Welfare Benefits
462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure for the number of carers in receipt of the carer's allowance excluding those on a... - Departmental Policies
466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department continue to meet the requirements of persons with insufficient income to meet... - Social Welfare Benefits
467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which social welfare appeals by applicants can be expedited in order to ensure that hardship does not occur;... - State Pensions
469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which self-employed or other contributions in respect of State pension applications to her Department have been... - Social Welfare Payments
472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the waiting time for decision in respect of applications for various social welfare payments has been... - Social Welfare Eligibility
475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for a carer's allowance will be re-examined in the case of a person (details supplied) who had previously... - Social Welfare Appeals
476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the social welfare appeals office will confirm receipt of a domiciliary care allowance appeal by a person (details... - Departmental Contracts
477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names of all companies supplying private security and cleaning services in her Department, including the cost of private... - Ministerial Staff
478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of the employment status in the civil service of each civilian driver who has been replaced by...
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