Written answers
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there is any potential for her Department to coordinate with other agencies to inquire as to the welfare of a person... - International Protection
5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is the position of the Department that the non-application of means tests regarding supports for persons seeking... - Budget 2025
6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there are plans to enhance long-term social welfare support for one-parent families in the upcoming Budget 2025. [37654/24] - Programme for Government
9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government commitments under the remit of her Department; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to extend eligibility of carer’s benefit to include people who are self-employed; and if she will make a... - Budget 2025
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether weekly social protection rates should be treated equally in terms of increases in Budget 2025; and if she... - Social Welfare Benefits
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 940 of 9 September 2024, if she will outline the policy and budgetary context in which... - Community Welfare Services
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the performance of processing ‘hubs’ for community welfare and other services; whether her... - Social Welfare Benefits
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the "working week" for working age payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37485/24] - Departmental Data
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of fraudulent claims of payments through her Department, by payment type, of those residing in the State and those... - Addiction Treatment Services
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection given the pressing need for enhanced support in drug and alcohol services in north-inner city Dublin, the specific measures... - Budget 2025
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there will reportedly be no increase to jobseeker’s allowance in Budget 2025; and if she will make a... - Citizens Information Services
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that workers in Citizens Information Service (CIS) companies are provided with a pay... - Child Poverty
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how her Department assesses the effectiveness of child benefit and back to school allowance payments in reducing child... - Parental Leave
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the recent extension to paid parental leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37612/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the recent expansion to the fuel allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37611/24] - State Pensions
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of family carers that have applied for, and been approved for, the new State pension for carers via the long-term... - Social Welfare Benefits
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase the income disregards and earnings thresholds for disability allowance and carer’s allowance;... - Social Welfare Payments
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional needs payments made, by reason, in Cork, in the first six months of 2022 and the first six months of... - Social Welfare Benefits
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the use of the supplementary welfare allowance for transport to necessary hospital appointments by constituents, to... - Supreme Court Rulings
37. 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 Benefits
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the number of recipients of jobseeker's allowance, or jobseeker's benefit, who had their payment withdrawn in each... - Rural Schemes
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the rural social scheme/Tús top-up to at least €12, to keep pace with other social... - Parental Leave
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on introducing a parental benefit for parents availing of unpaid parental leave; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Priorities
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider developing an age friendly mark which could be adopted by both public and private bodies, which would... - School Meals Programme
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that the hot school meals programme is not serving disabled children as the prescribed menu does not have... - Social Welfare Benefits
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to increase employment participation levels among those in receipt of one-parent family payments from... - Workplace Relations Commission
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to a Social Welfare Appeals Office appeal (details supplied), and the outcome of the Workplace Relations... - Social Welfare Benefits
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work her Department has undertaken to improve access to the carer’s allowance. [37633/24] - State Pensions
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the possibility of allowing pro-rata pensions for those that currently have insufficient contributions to... - School Meals Programme
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up to date position regarding the roll out of hot school meals in schools in Cork; the number of new schools that are... - Social Welfare Rates
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on ending discrimination against young unemployed people in terms of jobseekers’ payment rates in Budget... - Social Welfare Eligibility
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how her Department ensures that recipients of jobseeker’s allowance or jobseeker’s benefit are available for and... - Workplace Relations Commission
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the decision of the Workplace Relations Commission (details supplied) in relation to employment status of... - Disability Services
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to address the situation regarding both the needs of clients of the National Advocacy Service and the... - Budget 2025
53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on permanently increasing both child benefit and qualified child payments in Budget 2025; and if she will make a...
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