Written answers
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Offices
10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review of the part-time substitute service in Castlepollard will be finished and available for the public to read;... - Social Welfare Schemes
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the provision for wigs for those who have lost their hair due to medical reasons that are not... - Departmental Reviews
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department’s review of the extension of the free travel scheme to persons with... - Social Welfare Eligibility
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the process by which her Department contacts the British work and pensions department seeking contribution... - Child Poverty
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are being taken to reduce child poverty; the impact of these measures; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Rates
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is actively seeking to give a double payment of social welfare payments to assist with meeting costs, given that... - Social Welfare Inspections
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the legal basis on which welfare inspectors are entitled to enter a person’s home. [6173/23] - Social Welfare Eligibility
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the eligibility criteria for illness benefit to cover workers under 25 years of age who do not... - Social Welfare Payments
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of requests for additional needs payments in the month of January; the number granted; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Rates
22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to reviewing age-related rates of jobseeker's allowance with respect to those under 25 years;... - Social Welfare Schemes
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to providing a free travel scheme to all persons with epilepsy; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits
24. 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... - Social Welfare Payments
25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to process the applications for the exceptional needs payment and supplementary welfare allowance and... - Social Welfare Benefits
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being taken to deal with the delays in processing of applications for fuel allowance for the over-70s under the... - Agriculture Schemes
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made in identifying additional agricultural schemes under the new CAP which will be disregarded with regard to... - Live Register
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the trends in the numbers seeking jobseeker payments; the number who are being facilitated into pathways... - Social Welfare Benefits
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has read the recent NESC report on the self-employed. [2046/23] - Social Welfare Schemes
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the period of time that participants can remain on the Tús scheme; and if she will make a statement... - Pension Provisions
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the intended timeframe to introduce legislation underpinning the provision of pensions to carers. [5848/23] - Social Welfare Rates
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will immediately review social welfare rates in light of the rising cost of groceries; and if she will make a statement... - School Meals Programme
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is undertaking research into providing an enlarged school meals programme for national and post-primary... - Registration of Births
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on reforming the stillbirth registration process. [6114/23] - Social Welfare Payments
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments applied for through the community welfare service in Dundalk, County Louth, in 2022;... - Social Welfare Code
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her proposals to review the means test for the carer’s allowance. [5994/23] - Social Welfare Payments
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the statistics of exceptional needs payments from the two Intreo offices in the Dublin 8 and Dublin 12... - Departmental Reviews
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on her Department's review of means testing for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement... - Departmental Reports
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the report on the impact of employee PRSI contributions on minimum wage employees. [5996/23] - Social Welfare Offices
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reopen a full-time social welfare office in Castlepollard, County Westmeath. [5800/23] - Flexible Work Practices
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff in her Department who are working remotely on a permanent basis; the number working from home; the number... - Social Welfare Rates
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase the carer's allowance or carer's benefit rates and the income disregard; and if she will make a... - Departmental Schemes
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the target processing time for schemes under her Department; and if she will make a statement on the... - Community Welfare Services
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to the passing of the Social Welfare Act 2022, when her report on the provision and cost of community welfare officers... - Social Welfare Schemes
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the promised strawman proposal for the restructuring of long-term disability payments; the timeline for the... - Social Welfare Benefits
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person receiving the benefit payment for 65-year-olds is precluded from receiving the carer’s benefit; if receipt... - Disability Services
58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the consultation process as part of her Department’s work on addressing the cost of... - State Pensions
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that will be taken to address an anomaly whereby recipients of a non-contributory pension will not be able to rent...
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