Written answers
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12254/23] - Departmental Funding
793. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and... - Social Welfare Eligibility
794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a maintenance payment paid to an ex-spouse is not taken into account when calculating means to qualify for the... - State Pensions
795. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the averaging system used for the calculation of State pensions is to be retained; if not, the proposals the Government... - Social Welfare Code
797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can apply to become a carer for two persons, for example, a husband and wife; the process, the criteria and the... - Social Welfare Benefits
798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the carer’s allowance will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County... - Covid-19 Pandemic
801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 is to be recognised as an occupational disease for frontline health care workers in Ireland as per EU ACSH... - Social Welfare Code
802. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12451/23] - Disability Services
803. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will engage with a group (details supplied) concerning a shortfall in funding the provision of disability support... - State Pensions
804. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a response to an organisation’s (details supplied) call for an €11 increase in the State... - Social Welfare Benefits
805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide funding for individuals to avail of medical microblading on similar terms to the provision of wigs and... - Public Services Card
808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider automatically extending public services cards for people over 80 years of age who have physical and... - Birth Certificates
809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a digitalised version of a birth certificate will be accepted for marriage (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
810. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending eligibility to the living alone allowance to people in receipt of the one-parent... - Capital Expenditure Programme
811. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any projects under her remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if she will indicate the projects, in tabular... - Departmental Policies
812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 2 March 2023, the reason a person seeking to change their name in circumstances... - Social Welfare Benefits
813. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline whether her Department can cover any social protection service in respect of providing persons with... - State Pensions
814. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has given any consideration to the long-running issue of the inclusion of Tusla-approved foster carers in... - Social Welfare Code
815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the living-alone allowance is counted or discounted for the purpose of calculating the means for the fuel allowance. [12693/23] - Departmental Policies
816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the proposals in relation to ending the campaign to pursue former partners for unpaid child maintenance... - Departmental Advertising
817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent to date on the advertisement of the additional needs' payment, in social media and traditional media, by... - Social Welfare Rates
818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide her response to a recommendation in a report (details supplied) concerning energy poverty calling for the... - International Protection
819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken in response to the recommendation in the Report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support... - Social Welfare Code
820. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of the livin- alone allowance on the State pension can relinquish this payment in order to avail of... - Direct Provision System
822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, following the report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support including Accommodation to Persons in the... - Sustainable Development Goals
823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made by her Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030... - Care Services
824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has given consideration to introducing a young carer’s grant, similar to the one introduced in... - Social Welfare Benefits
825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the living alone allowance can be backdated to July 2021 for a person (details supplied) on a discretionary basis; and if... - Fuel Poverty
826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who applied for the fuel allowance from October 2022 to February 2023; the number of those applications... - Pension Provisions
827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for an old age contributory pension by a person (details supplied); and if she... - Refugee Resettlement Programme
829. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual payments of €800 made under the pledged accommodation scheme for Ukrainian refugees; the... - Pension Provisions
830. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a self-employed person who pays S contributions and was in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment during 2020 and... - Social Welfare Benefits
831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to streamline the system for early years educators who have to undertake a full application for jobseeker's... - Social Welfare Offices
848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there are plans to open an Intreo centre in Lucan County Dublin given the population growth in the area; and if she... - Social Welfare Benefits
849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has a policy of writing to social welfare payment recipients and asking them to change their method of... - Social Welfare Eligibility
850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if people who did not qualify for the fuel allowance in advance of starting a community employment scheme can now access the... - Employment Support Services
851. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any funding for the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire has changed in recent weeks or months; and if she... - Social Welfare Benefits
854. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people with direct eligibility for free travel under the free travel scheme; and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Eligibility
862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of PPS numbers issued in Ireland from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, the breakdown by nationality that each... - Irish Sign Language
863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 14 February 2023, if she will report the recommendations of the Irish Sign...
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