Written answers
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes
1223.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has any plans to align people seeking international protection, and people with permission to remain, with relevant... - Social Welfare Benefits
1224.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the back-to-education allowance rates by 10%; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Code
1225.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection where a farmer has a second house that is leased or rented as a permanent residence to a family member, whether they are... - Social Welfare Rates
1227.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment to meet the minimum essential standard of living, as detailed by... - School Meals Programme
1229.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will include a school (details supplied) in the breakfast club programme for September 2024; and if she will make a... - Disability Services
1230.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she... - Social Welfare Benefits
1231.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Industrial Disputes
1232.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the Labour Court recommendation concerning pay and conditions for an organisation (details... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1233.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for carer's allowance for a person (details supplied). [30941/24] - State Pensions
1234.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 1 May 2024, if she would consider using the last 40 years of contributions in... - Social Welfare Appeals
1235.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average and median length of time for a disability allowance appeal decision to be made at the Social Welfare Appeals... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1236.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disability allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied). [30994/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
1237.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal (details supplied); the status of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31077/24] - Industrial Disputes
1238.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department has not implemented the recommendation of the Labour Court in relation to the National Advocacy... - State Pensions
1239.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pension entitlements being worked on for carers by her Department at present will be extended to long-term foster carers;... - Social Welfare Schemes
1240.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for aid that have been received by the State for aid in east Cork since the flooding on 18 October... - Social Welfare Appeals
1242.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if... - Industrial Disputes
1244.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the Government is failing to implement a Labour Court recommendation from last January regarding staff at the... - Employment Rights
1246.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on sick leave policy affecting a staff member within her Department following a surgical procedure (details... - Social Welfare Appeals
1247.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Medical Aids and Appliances
1248.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a grant for hearing aids; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
1249.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason, in the case when a widow and-or widower receives a State pension (contributory) and their annual tax cut off is... - Departmental Reviews
1250.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review of means testing was commenced by her Department; when the report will be finalised and published; the reason... - Social Welfare Appeals
1251.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal by a person (details supplied) against a refusal of disability allowance; and if... - Departmental Data
1252.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for an urgent needs payment in Limerick, by reason, in 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in... - Departmental Legal Cases
1253.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of legal cases taken by her Department or by State agencies or bodies under her Department's aegis against another... - Social Welfare Code
1254.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was charged for a transport service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1255.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress in the determination of an application for a one-parent family payment in the case of a person (details... - School Meals Programme
1257.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schools in Cavan currently providing the hot school meals programme, in tabular form. [31405/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
1258.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made for invalidity pension in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the number of applications made that... - Departmental Budgets
1259.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of the current budget allocation to her Department that has been spent in the first six months of 2024; and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1260.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a response will issue on a matter raised by a person (details supplied). [31467/24] - Social Welfare Payments
1262.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to applying a means test disregard on all environmental scheme payments received by farm assist claimants;... - Social Welfare Appeals
1263.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the social welfare appeals office does not answer any of its phone lines, or answer queries by email; and if she... - Departmental Consultations
1264.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of her consultation on introducing a cost of disability payment, and whether a report will be available to her on... - Social Welfare Rates
1265.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase to the €6.30 subsidy paid as part of the wage subsidy scheme for people... - Departmental Data
1266.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown of the different subsidy rates over the past ten years for the wage subsidy scheme; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Application Forms
1268.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department’s plans to make all paper formed social welfare forms available in public libraries for persons who... - Social Welfare Rates
1269.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2025 if the domiciliary care allowance increased to €360 per month. [31595/24] - Social Welfare Eligibility
1271.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision is likely on a carer’s allowance application (details supplied) made on 20 May 2024; and if she will... - Social Welfare Code
1272.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time allowable to leave the country for recipients of each form of social welfare and State pension; and... - Social Welfare Rates
1273.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2025 if the carer's support grant is increased to €2,050. [31640/24] - Social Insurance
1274.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider introducing a scheme of credited social insurance contributions for foster carers in this year’s Budget;... - Social Welfare Code
1275.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider introducing auto-enrolment for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance for children in foster care in... - Social Welfare Rates
1276.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost to increase the income limit to qualify for the fuel allowance for persons aged over 70 years to... - Industrial Relations
1277.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the practical steps being taken to improve the paying conditions for staff (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals
1278.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on domiciliary care allowance appeal submitted by a person (detail supplied); the reason for the... - Departmental Data
1280.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment changes made to the old age contributory pension each year from 2019 and to date in 2024; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1307.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. [31935/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
1308.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal will be facilitated against refusal for exceptional needs payment in the case of a person (details supplied);... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1309.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if rent or other special assistance might be payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals
1312.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case for an appeal on invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a... - Social Insurance
1313.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yield in 2025 of a new employer’s PRSI rate of 17% on any salaries in excess of €165,000. [31984/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
1314.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals currently on hand in respect of means tested social welfare payments, in tabular form. [31985/24] - Departmental Data
1315.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a comparison of welfare rates in 2020 to 2024, by type of payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32024/24] - Community Welfare Services
1317.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacant WTE community welfare officer posts currently by office, in tabular form. [32079/24] - Public Services Card
1319.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a timeframe for the upgrade of software used to process public services cards to enable applicants to apply... - Industrial Relations
1320.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions being taken on behalf of workers at an organisation (details supplied) to ensure they receive a pay agreement... - Departmental Data
1321.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have availed from the extension of child benefit to those continuing secondary education but who... - Social Welfare Benefits
1323.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time to process applications and award a carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on... - Cost of Living Issues
1324.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a list of the supports currently available to families with the rising cost-of-living; and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Appeals
1325.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time to process appeal applications; the steps her Department is taking to cope with these large numbers;... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1326.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has received a reduced payment on an illness benefit claim; and if she will make a... - State Pensions
1330.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the year in which application forms were introduced for the State pensions (contributory) and (non-contributory) and became... - Employment Rights
1331.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work being done to resolve the problem of bogus self-employment in the building sector; if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits
1332.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to further increase the income threshold for fuel allowance. [32484/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
1333.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average time for social welfare appeals across the various payment applications. [32485/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
1334.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer's allowance payment can be urgently increased, or additional supports provided to recipients, given the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1335.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the qualification criteria for partial capacity benefit can be urgently reviewed (details supplied). [32487/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
1336.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current processing timeframes for new applications for disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1341.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employment under the job initiative scheme could be included as employment on the list of employment schemes which would... - Social Welfare Benefits
1342.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for domiciliary care allowance for the mother of a young child (details supplied) who has a... - Social Welfare Rates
1344.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to increase the domiciliary care allowance by €100 per month. [32607/24] - Industrial Relations
1346.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the recommendations of the Labour Court will be implemented in relation to the National Advocacy Service; if she is... - Social Welfare Benefits
1347.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if rent supplement or other assistance is available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Rates
1349.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to regularly adjust welfare payments to reflect current inflation rates, in light of the severe impact of... - Cost of Living Issues
1350.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way her Department measures the effectiveness of Ireland’s economic policies in improving the living standards of... - Departmental Strategies
1352.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the long-term strategies that are being developed at this point to address the root causes of poverty and deprivation in... - Social Welfare Rates
1353.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all weekly social protection payments by €20 a week from 1 January 2025, or... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1354.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending eligibility for working family payment (WFP) to parents in receipt of jobseeker’s... - Social Welfare Rates
1355.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the qualified child increase payment in 2025 by €6 for children aged under 12 years,... - Departmental Budgets
1358.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of an additional three weeks of paid parent’s leave in 2025; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Rates
1359.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost increasing the weekly fuel allowance weekly payment by €7 for the 2024-2025 fuel season; the... - Departmental Budgets
1361.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of providing pay related maternity benefit on the same terms as the new pay-related jobseeker’s... - Tax Collection
1366.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected yield from every 0.1% increase in employer’s PRSI or self-employment PRSI; to provide the individual... - Departmental Budgets
1367.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost in 2025 of restoring jobseeker’s allowance for under-25s to the standard adult rate; and... - Social Welfare Benefits
1368.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing a Christmas bonus social welfare payment on the same basis as in December 2023 this year; and... - Departmental Budgets
1369.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2025 to provide a cost-of-disability payment of €20 per week; and if she will make a statement... - Social Insurance
1373.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected surplus (or deficit) in the social insurance fund for 2024, and each year to 2030; and if she will make a... - Pension Provisions
1374.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of the auto-enrolment pension scheme in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Industrial Relations
1376.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and its agencies are available to re-enter talks with organisations (details supplied) in order to... - Social Dialogue
1377.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has communicated with the independent facilitator subsequent to the talks they chaired between organisations (details... - School Meals Programme
1378.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the name and number of schools in the Mountbellew, Portumna, Tuam, Loughrea, Athenry and Oranmore municipal areas in receipt... - Industrial Relations
1379.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to report on her engagements with National Advocacy Service workers in relation to their labour dispute; and if she will make... - Departmental Budgets
1380.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of introducing a parental leave benefit of €300 a week paid to parents availing of... - School Meals Programme
1385.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail for all primary schools in each of Dublin 1, Dublin 3, Dublin 7, Dublin 9 and Dublin 11, the total number... - Pension Provisions
1386.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process by which her Department contacts the British work and pensions department seeking contribution information about... - Departmental Consultations
1387.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the nature and extent of engagement her Department has had with other Government agencies and departments in relation to the... - Social Welfare Benefits
1388.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work to operationalise the recommendations in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund and the... - Pension Provisions
1389.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current stage of legislation that will allow for the enactment of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow a cohabitant... - Social Welfare Appeals
1390.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting times at the Appeals Office; if additional resources will be allocated to it; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
1392.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding Catherine’s Law to exempt Arts Council grants and bursaries from means-testing of the... - Departmental Policies
1393.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the interests of transparency, she will introduce call monitoring on all calls between the public and social... - Departmental Budgets
1394.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes,... - Social Welfare Payments
1399.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average processing times for all social welfare payments; the number of applications received for each payment;... - Social Welfare Appeals
1401.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance appeals, and the number of successful appeals, over each of the past five years.... - Social Welfare Payments
1402.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actual number of, and the percentage of, working family payment claimants who are also claiming the one-parent family... - Social Welfare Appeals
1404.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown of the average wait time for a decision on an appeal, for each social welfare payment; and if she will make a... - Citizens Information Services
1405.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to ensure that workers in Citizens Information companies are provided with a pay increase, given the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1406.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the substantial discrepancies that exist between initial applications for domiciliary care and the level... - Social Welfare Payments
1407.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps it is intended to take regarding the extent of the backlog in processing disability allowance claims. [33592/24] - Social Welfare Schemes
1408.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients for each social welfare scheme. [33593/24] - Departmental Budgets
1410.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in regard to the jobseeker’s benefit pay-related scheme, noting the revised Estimates, the full-year cost of the... - Employment Schemes
1415.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of the JobPath scheme for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [33600/24] - Social Welfare Eligibility
1416.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of including the working family payment as a qualifying payment for fuel allowance. [33601/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
1419.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare recipients, by social welfare type, in 2023; and the projected number of social welfare... - Social Welfare Payments
1420.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum weekly rates of social welfare payments by social welfare type in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the average... - Social Welfare Code
1421.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost to the Exchequer of increasing maternity benefit, paternity benefit and parent’s benefit by eight...
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