Written answers
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Code
434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial implications for a person with a diagnosis of autism and in receipt of disability allowance who inherits a home... - Social Welfare Benefits
435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time and longest waiting time for social welfare claims, and separately, for claim appeals; and... - Social Welfare Code
436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will exempt the carer’s payment from a means test (details supplied). [15410/23] - Public Procurement Contracts
438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of all procurement competitions, if any, in which companies (details supplied) won contracts from... - Official Travel
439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total costs of accommodation and travel expenses associated with her recent foreign trip, or foreign trips by Ministers... - State Pensions
440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether a procedure/method exists whereby a person (details supplied) can care for her two elderly parents but also accrue... - Social Welfare Appeals
441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting on an appeal decision for carer's allowance; and if she will make a... - School Meals Programme
442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the school meals programme budget by 5%, 10%, 20% and 25%, respectively. [14768/23] - State Pensions
443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any mechanism by which a person who has been refused a full State pension (contributory) due to a deficit in... - Social Welfare Benefits
445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if... - Official Engagements
448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she met her UK counterpart during her recent visit to London for St. Patrick's Day events. [14973/23] - Social Welfare Payments
449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance via an exceptional needs payment can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will... - Citizens Information Services
450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the closure of a centre (details supplied), the reason this happened when there were no cost issues; the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social protection supports and pension payments that a person (details supplied) can avail of. [15014/23] - Citizens Information Services
453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she intends to provide a citizens information centre in Rathmines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15019/23] - Community Employment Schemes
455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any circumstances where a person can access community employment schemes, if they are not in receipt of a... - State Pensions
456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the State pension entitlement of a person (details supplied) on a total contribution approach, having... - Social Welfare Appeals
457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension appeal, on behalf of a person (details supplied), will be expedited. [15054/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an illness benefit backdating appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if... - Community Employment Schemes
460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for an assistant supervisor (details supplied) for a community scheme; when an outcome will... - Social Welfare Code
461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the current fuel allowance beyond 10 April 2023; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals
462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County... - State Pensions
463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was not awarded a full State pension (contributory); the options available to them at... - Departmental Meetings
464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if representatives from her Department have met with trade unions representing healthcare workers with long-Covid since June... - Register of Electors
466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will acknowledge the importance of encouraging young people to participate in the democratic process by becoming a... - Social Welfare Payments
467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of social welfare payments currently being paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - State Pensions
469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify entitlement to a State pension (non-contributory) for a person (details supplied); if this person should... - Social Welfare Code
471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for asking persons completing an exceptional needs payment application to submit an engineer’s report at... - Redundancy Payments
472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who, following ten years of uninterrupted service, was made redundant... - Social Welfare Benefits
473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); if the case will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Appeals
477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to what extent oral hearings in respect of appeals against disallowance for various payments are up to date; and if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits
478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care allowance received by her Department in the past twelve months; the number of... - State Pensions
481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the possible cost of introducing prorate pensions for those who have made pension contributions but an insufficient amount to... - Social Welfare Benefits
484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Departmental Data
485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in the country currently registered as being aged over 100 years; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Code
486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the extent, if any, to which she intends to expand or extend various social welfare payments given the... - Social Welfare Payments
489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the dates in April that the announced spring bonus payments are due to be paid to eligible social welfare recipients; and if...
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