Written answers
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a privately run service (details supplied) is obligated to recognise the State travel pass for older people; and if she... - Departmental Staff
300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE medical officers working in her Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.... - Pension Provisions
301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 20 February 2024, to provide an update on the long-term carers’... - Social Welfare Eligibility
302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to address the current legislative anomaly where people who were forced to retire from work on health... - Social Welfare Benefits
305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) has been approved. [20261/24] - Departmental Staff
306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employees within her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department who are currently suspended on... - Social Welfare Benefits
307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a training support grant by a person in County Kerry (details supplied);... - European Union
308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the EU programmes or funds outside of the multiannual financial framework that Ireland has paid into from the year 2014 to... - Social Welfare Code
309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the position if people can apply to have credits towards their pension while they were in receipt of carer's... - Social Welfare Benefits
311. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person from County Leitrim (details supplied) was not awarded jobseeker’s benefit despite working for a... - State Pensions
312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the State pension (non-contributory) will be approved for a person (details supplied); if they are... - Social Welfare Benefits
313. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection about an application for a carer’s allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20543/24] - Departmental Expenditure
316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the total expenditure on rent supplement in 2022 and 2023, and the allocation for 2024. [20550/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is discretion on the part of the deciding officer for a late application for paternity benefit (details supplied).... - Social Welfare Eligibility
318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in County Kerry (details supplied) can requalify for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on... - State Pensions
319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will investigate why a person (details supplied), who now qualifies for a higher rate non-contributory pension, did... - School Meals Programme
320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of an application for the school meals programme (details supplied); the reason this school did not... - Social Welfare Code
321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent extension of child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education or those with a disability also includes... - School Meals Programme
322. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the nutrition standards for school meals are being monitored, implemented and enforced; and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Eligibility
324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for a carer’s support grant in the case of a person (details... - Social Welfare Benefits
325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance can be offered to a person (details supplied) so the review of his jobseeker's benefit claim can be considered;... - Social Welfare Appeals
327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of section 317 appeals with the appeals office; the average and median time for a decision on section 317 appeals;... - International Protection
328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided to beneficiaries of temporary protection to reimburse them for taxi-related fees through the... - Social Welfare Code
330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reassess the means test threshold for carer’s allowance, where people who are providing care are at risk... - Educational Disadvantage
331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason schools that have recently been designated as DEIS schools are not being included in the hot school meals scheme;... - School Meals Programme
332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans she has in place to ensure that children with coeliac disease are properly catered for in the school meals... - Social Welfare Payments
333. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 30 April 2024. if he will review the matter (details supplied); and if she will... - Social Welfare Appeals
334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal (details supplied) which has been in processing for a number of...
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