Written answers
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of applications for carer’s allowance and carer's benefit; the number of... - Social Welfare Appeals
865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been left waiting several months for a decision from the appeals offices regarding... - Social Welfare Benefits
866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carer’s allowance claim by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if... - State Pensions
867. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pension contributions paid by those in employment over the age of 66 years will be taken into consideration when... - Social Welfare Eligibility
868. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail her Department's eligibility criteria for assessing a child with a neurodivergent condition whose parents... - Social Welfare Code
870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the operational guidelines of Jobseeker's allowance relating to allow all those under 25 years to access... - Departmental Staff
871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff within her Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles... - Labour Activation Measures
872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made on each of the recommendations of the Report on Labour Activation by the Joint Oireachtas... - State Pensions
873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what advancement has been made in providing a pension in relation to carers (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Labour Activation Measures
874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people referred to JobPath since 2015, in tabular form. [16615/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are income supports for 65-year-olds who wish to continue working part-time hours, five days per week until they... - Social Welfare Payments
879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if notice to cease a carer's allowance payment for a person (details suppled) in County Donegal can be stayed until requested... - Social Welfare Appeals
880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will expedite an invalidity appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied). [16670/23] - Social Welfare Eligibility
881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to pay the full basic supplementary welfare allowance to asylum seekers who are not in direct provision and if... - Social Welfare Rates
882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of illness benefit for a person (details supplied) can be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary No. 289 of 23 March 2023, assuming a person who is working a full-time job in a four-day week has... - Social Welfare Appeals
884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision is expected on a disability allowance application (details supplied). [16777/23] - Departmental Correspondence
885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16791/23] - General Practitioner Services
887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has informed GPs not to issue medical certs for those individuals seeking such certificates for social... - School Meals Programme
888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to conduct a review of the implementation of the hot school meals programme to ensure it is receiving optimum uptake from... - Social Welfare Appeals
889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Welfare Appeals Office will make a decision on a domiciliary care allowance appeal (details supplied); and if... - State Pensions
890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if she will provide an update on an application for a State pension... - Social Welfare Appeals
892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to an appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) in June 2022; and if she will... - Departmental Staff
894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff by grade working in the special investigations unit of her Department as of 30 March 2023; and if she... - Employment Support Services
896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department recognises a disability employment service (details supplied) as 23 separate companies, and how this will... - Departmental Policies
898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the work her Department has done on extending free travel eligibility to persons who suffer... - Employment Support Services
899. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the staff in a disability employment service (details supplied) receive a suitable increase in... - Social Welfare Schemes
900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of providing domiciliary care allowance to children aged 16 and 17 years, in view of the fact that... - Social Welfare Payments
901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many people received the household benefit scheme in 2020, 2021 and 2022; and the cost of the scheme to the State in each... - Departmental Policies
902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what supports are available for employees and self-employed people with chronic illness to attend medical appointments during... - Social Welfare Eligibility
903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether considerations have been made to ease the eligibility criteria for partial capacity benefit to increase security for... - Social Welfare Application Forms
904. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the possibility of streamlining applications for the additional needs payments for cancer patients on... - Social Welfare Payments
905. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when basic supplementary welfare will issue to a person (details supplied) who has two dependent children; and if she... - Social Welfare Eligibility
906. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions that are in place for women who are rejected for maternity benefit due to insufficient PRSI contributions,... - State Pensions
907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the record of contributions for pension purposes will be made available to a person (details supplied). [17131/23] - Departmental Strategies
908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for not purchasing a building which housed a Citizens Information Centre on Wynnefield Road, Rathmines when it was... - Citizens Information Services
909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the decision to reduce in-person citizens information services in view of the housing and cost-of-living... - Social Welfare Eligibility
910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for carer's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;... - Social Welfare Payments
911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate a person’s (details supplied) agent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17201/23] - Gender Recognition
912. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the recommendations of the Review Report of the Gender Recognition Act 2015, published in November 2019, if she... - Social Welfare Code
913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing the means test for carers where the care recipient is a child who has lifelong medical needs... - Employment Schemes
914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on ensuring that the rates of payment under the job initiative scheme are benchmarked to cost-of-living rates.... - Social Welfare Eligibility
915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on ensuring that individuals on job initiative schemes are eligible for the fuel allowance. [17267/23] - Social Welfare Payments
916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a one-parent family payment and arrears will be immediately paid in the case of a person (details supplied). [17268/23] - Social Welfare Appeals
918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the request for the backdating of the invalidity pension claim for a person (details supplied) was refused; if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the criteria for fuel allowance in light of the housing crisis, where many adult children cannot get... - Social Welfare Appeals
920. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine an appeal by a person (details supplied) and the salient points made therein. [17389/23] - Social Welfare Payments
921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the working family payment for a person (details supplied) will be renewed; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals
922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal has been completed for a carers support grant application by person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Gender Recognition
923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how a person under 18 years of age who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a clinical psychologist can acquire a... - Public Services Card
924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are currently delays for appointments to get a Public Services Card; the current timeframe to apply and receive a... - School Meals Programme
925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools outside DEIS status who are providing hot or cold meals to children by county, in tabular form; and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [17580/23] - Departmental Policies
928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 30 March 2023, if, given the fact that the recipient of the free travel referred... - Social Welfare Appeals
929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm receipt of a recent disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied). [17641/23] - Social Welfare Eligibility
930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the circumstances where an employee is eligible for a social welfare payment arising from medical advice... - Social Welfare Appeals
931. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a claim for disability allowance by a person in County Cork (details supplied); and if, in particular, she... - Community Welfare Services
932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons the community welfare officer service was removed from her Department's office in Ardee, County Louth; and if she... - Departmental Policies
933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there is any update on her Department's position regarding the recognition of Covid-19 as an occupational disease for... - Departmental Funding
934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by her Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation... - State Pensions
935. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17739/23] - Departmental Staff
937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of... - Social Welfare Appeals
940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a disability allowance; if the case will be reviewed; and if she will make... - Social Welfare Payments
941. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the one-parent family payment will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) while all outstanding matters... - Insurance Coverage
942. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a State life insurance for persons who are excluded from such cover due to chronic illness and other... - State Pensions
943. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a matter in relation to the pension of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Payments
944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer’s allowance arrears due to a person (details supplied) will be paid immediately. [17932/23] - Social Welfare Appeals
945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the contributory pension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if an oral hearing can... - Departmental Correspondence
946. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18143/23] - Pension Provisions
947. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department's views on correspondence (details supplied) which relates to the application of change of status PRSI credits... - Employment Support Services
948. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her future plans regarding the employability service which supports people in the community who have a disability, illness,... - Social Welfare Eligibility
951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the one-parent family payment and, separately, supplementary welfare allowance were not approved in the case of a...
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