Written answers
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Eligibility
428.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, with regard to a non-habitual Irish citizen who has returned to Ireland for health reasons in order to avail of their... - Social Welfare Appeals
429.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the appeal of a person (details supplied). [24603/24] - Social Welfare Eligibility
431.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who is self-employed and who was placed on the temporary Covid payment during the pandemic has... - International Protection
432.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase in payments to international protection applicants living in direct provision... - Social Welfare Eligibility
433.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria for illness benefit to include people who are self-employed who become ill or... - Social Welfare Appeals
434.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current timeframe for appeals; if there is currently a lengthy delay registering appeals; and if she will make a statement... - Departmental Data
435.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in her Department... - Legislative Measures
436.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer... - Social Welfare Payments
437.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the benefits or pensions that are available to a spouse on behalf of a deceased spouse; the query relates to a person (details... - State Pensions
438.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State pension (contributory) being paid to a person (details supplied) will be increased to the maximum, based on... - Social Welfare Eligibility
439.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance is available to a family that use public transport to take their six-year-old daughter (details supplied) to and... - Social Welfare Code
440.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to the legislation arising from a case (details supplied), cohabiting couples without (dependent) children... - Gender Recognition
444.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans there are to enable those who hold a gender recognition certificate to update their name on their child's birth... - State Pensions
446.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of her engagement in 2024 with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Tusla, and... - International Protection
448.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of media reports that social protection payments may have been issued to international protection applicants... - Social Welfare Payments
449.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if steps can be taken to expedite an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will... - Social Welfare Appeals
451.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to setting up a dedicated appeals department for each type of social welfare payment to ensure... - Social Welfare Benefits
453.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by an individual (details supplied) for domiciliary care allowance; and if she... - Social Welfare Eligibility
454.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) keeps getting denied carer’s allowance. [24937/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
455.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied). [24949/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
459.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made by her appeals office in relation to a lady (details supplied) whose living alone allowance was... - Social Welfare Benefits
460.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current situation regarding a carer’s allowance application by a person in County Cork (details supplied); if her... - Social Welfare Schemes
461.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the fees paid by her Department to optometrists for tests under the PRSI scheme; when this level of fee payment was... - Departmental Contracts
462.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts awarded by her Department to a company (details supplied) to carry out works on behalf of her... - Pensions Reform
463.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider taking any legislative or policy measures in order to combat the recent finding in a report (details... - Social Welfare Benefits
464.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was categorised as self-employed even though they have never been self-employed. [25125/24] - Labour Court
466.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the action she is taking to avert strike action by workers in the National Advocacy Service who have not received a... - Gender Recognition
467.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she would support a change in the law to allow people to register their gender as intersex or to change it from... - Social Welfare Code
468.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what state supports and benefits are paid to foster families who have cared for a special needs person for over 20 years from... - Social Welfare Benefits
469.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a person on invalidity pension was refused a fuel allowance; and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
472.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria and checklist used to assess an application by a person for disability allowance. [25218/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
473.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the case of a person (details supplied), she will instruct her Department to assess an application based on hours... - Departmental Expenditure
474.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an itemised breakdown of how the Budget 2023 allocation of an additional €1 million in funding to expand the... - Social Welfare Benefits
475.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be undertaken into the case of a person (details supplied) with a view to restoring IQA payment to full rate... - Social Welfare Appeals
478.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the backlog of social welfare appeals, which are pending while the Social Welfare Appeals Office assesses the impact of... - Social Welfare Code
479.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, on foot of the ruling of the CJEU in a case (details supplied) in December 2023, there has been any consideration or... - Social Welfare Eligibility
480.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the domiciliary care allowance tax credit to 18 years of age to provide support for people with... - Social Welfare Appeals
481.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the review/appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
483.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the rent supplement option to vulnerable persons who are privately renting; and if she will make a... - Question Heading for question(s) 485
485.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the disability allowance application for a person (details supplied) could be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
486.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on an application for carer’s allowance (details supplied); when the application will be... - Social Welfare Eligibility
488.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of eligibility for the rent-a-room scheme for those on a social welfare payment (details supplied); and if she... - School Meals Programme
489.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain why schools, newly designated as DEIS in 2022, are solely eligible either for a hot meal (if they are a primary... - Social Welfare Appeals
491.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the case of an appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25453/24] - Social Welfare Eligibility
492.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when legislation will be published to establish the right of non-marital long term partners to ‘Widows Pensions’... - Rental Sector
493.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a rent supplement appeal lodged by a person in County Galway (details supplied); the reason... - Departmental Contracts
494.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details... - Employment Schemes
495.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to introduce a new scheme/payment for people who wish to take a career break for a year or less from... - Pension Provisions
496.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for a... - Social Welfare Schemes
498.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will add any additional schemes under the new CAP to those currently deemed non-assessable income regarding farm... - Pension Levy
499.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 23 May 2024, if it can be clarified as to why the applicant was informed in... - Social Welfare Appeals
500.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive an answer from the Social Welfare Appeals Office, as this appeal is pending... - Pension Provisions
502.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what financial support is available for a person with coeliac disease, on the state pension, for the purchase of food. [25569/24] - Official Engagements
503.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has spoken formally with her United States counterpart to date in 2024. [25572/24] - State Pensions
504.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she is considering entitlement to the State pension (contributory) in line with the level of necessary... - Pension Provisions
505.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it might be possible to allow for top-up pensions to be paid to former EU nationals living in this country... - Social Welfare Appeals
506.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent, if any, to which time taken to determine appeals can be improved; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Payments
507.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments made to persons or families in other than bereavement circumstances in each of the... - Pension Provisions
512.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made for an invalidity pension in each of the past three years to date; the number granted; the... - Social Welfare Payments
513.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made for the working family payment in each of the past three years to date; the number granted;...
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