Written answers
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Rates
78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has any plans to increase welfare rates for those on disability payments in light of additional costs and rising... - Social Welfare Code
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason people on benefit payments, who have worked and paid their taxes, are still not eligible for the fuel allowance or... - International Protection
86. 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... - Social Welfare Code
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to award the fuel allowance to households in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Rates
88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase social welfare rates in line with inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15204/23] - Social Welfare Payments
91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount her Department spent on the farm assist payment in 2022; the total number of recipients for the same year; and if... - Nursing Homes
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will prioritise the right of homeowners in nursing homes to rent out their vacant homes without it affecting their... - Social Welfare Benefits
95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the application process for emergency needs’ payments for those seeking assistance with... - Social Welfare Appeals
96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will provide evidence that the reduction in positive outcomes for appeals to the Social Welfare Appeals... - State Pensions
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing pro-rata pensions on the basis of the proportion of contributions made by the pensioner relative... - Social Welfare Code
98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has made any provision for an increased budget for additional needs’ payments in light of the ending of the... - State Pensions
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason those paying the D stamp and who were recruited prior to 1995 are not eligible for the State pension... - Social Welfare Appeals
101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which appeals against negative decisions in response to applications for domiciliary care allowance can be... - Social Welfare Code
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her engagement with an organisation (details supplied) in providing a free travel scheme to all persons with epilepsy; if a... - State Pensions
103. 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; and if she will make a statement on... - Agriculture Schemes
104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expected timeframe in which she intends to announce additional agricultural schemes in the new CAP which will be... - Community Employment Schemes
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on engagement from her Department with community employment supervisors regarding their... - Social Welfare Appeals
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the context of concerns over improper control of her Department over the independent Social Welfare Appeals Office, if... - Official Travel
108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on her recent visit to London. [15131/23] - Social Welfare Code
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will seek to amend the current situation in respect of age-related rates of jobseeker’s allowance for... - School Meals Programme
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 2 March 2023, if she has completed the review of the final report from the... - Community Employment Schemes
112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has any plans to change the eligibility criteria for CE schemes to include persons in direct provision; and if she... - Social Welfare Appeals
113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the ‘SW56 Introduction to Social Welfare Appeals Office’ information leaflet is no longer sent to... - Social Welfare Benefits
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of farmers in receipt of the farm assist payment; the county in which most of the payments are made; and if she... - Social Welfare Code
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the social welfare entitlements of public service employees who paid the modified class-D social... - Social Welfare Payments
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the accommodation recognition payment in County Clare; if this number is increasing or... - Social Welfare Benefits
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that will benefit from the child benefit lump sum payment in June 2023; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has a timeframe within which domestic violence has occurred for a person to be eligible for an emergency... - Social Welfare Code
121. 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 on the... - Labour Activation Measures
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the labour activation measures put in place by her Department, considering many sectors are facing recruitment challenges and... - Social Welfare Code
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection who receives the working family payment in a two-parent household; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14958/23] - Departmental Strategies
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline her Department's consumer protection strategy in the wake of a recent report (details supplied) which... - Social Welfare Code
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will look at further widening the thresholds for accessing the fuel allowance scheme in Budget 2023 given that the... - Departmental Consultations
127. 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... - Social Welfare Code
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 824 of 21 March 2023, if consideration will be given to introducing a young... - Departmental Staff
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide evidence around her Department’s assertions that staff members moving into the Social Welfare... - Social Welfare Code
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to extending the fuel allowance to households in receipt of the working family payment; and if... - Social Welfare Payments
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount paid out by her Department for the accommodation recognition payment since 4 March 2022; the total number of... - Social Welfare Benefits
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to support family carers. [14887/23] - Social Welfare Eligibility
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the criteria for assessment for the domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - State Pensions
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to pro-rata contributory pensions in the event that a person has not been able, through... - Social Welfare Appeals
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it is no longer made clear on the Social Welfare Appeals Office’s website that appellants can request an... - Social Welfare Code
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to cases where people in receipt of full disability allowance will see it revoked if they... - Departmental Meetings
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the nature, extent and frequency of meetings and talks between her Department and its British... - Social Welfare Rates
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the last occasion when there was an increase in the energy part of the household benefit package; if she... - Social Welfare Code
147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider targeted measures, such as a social energy tariff, rather than universal payments in its... - Social Welfare Benefits
149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to improve the processing times for disability allowance applications; the target timeline for decisions... - Departmental Policies
151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on progress to reform the stillbirth registration process. [14886/23] - School Meals Programme
152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the school meals programme to all schools by 2023; and if she will ensure that these meals are of a high... - Social Welfare Code
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the requirement for those who apply for an exceptional needs' payment for kitchen items, such as... - Social Welfare Benefits
154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that are now outstanding on the over-70s fuel allowance applications received; and if she will... - Social Welfare Code
155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends on increasing the maximum period a person may receive jobseeker’s benefit from nine months to a year;...
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