Written answers
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- School Funding
474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending the hot school meals programme to all second-level schools; and the number of primary and post-primary... - Social Welfare Benefits
475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of the carer’s allowance; and her best estimate of the number of these... - Disability Services
476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the duration of the Tús programme for people with disabilities (details supplied). [40502/24] - Social Welfare Application Forms
477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for disability allowance will be expedited and approved for a person (details supplied). [42522/24] - Employment Support Services
478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how her Department plans to address long-term unemployment in County Kildare, especially among younger residents; and if she... - Emergency Accommodation
479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional supports that are being made available to families living in long-term emergency accommodation in Kildare,... - Disability Services
480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection If disability allowance will continue to be paid to a person (details supplied). [42596/24] - Care Services
481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list all the achievements that have been made to benefit and improve outcomes for carers since this Government took... - Social Welfare Payments
483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that has been given to reforming the means test for carer’s allowance so that the carer is... - Departmental Budgets
484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide the full-year cost of increasing the income disregards for single and couples for carer’s allowance by... - Social Welfare Benefits
490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any financial supports are available from her Department to those who are considered young carers; and if she will make a... - Departmental Budgets
492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of the free travel scheme, and the projected expenditure on the scheme out to 2030; and if she will make a... - Citizens Information Services
494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 29 September 2020, if she has had sight of correspondence dated 19 September... - Social Welfare Payments
495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who has been in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for the past two months, and was previously in receipt of... - Employment Rights
496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she accepts that on 2 December 2001, she wrote to the Privileges Committee as follows: ‘in rare and very limited... - Social Welfare Appeals
502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a disability allowance review and appeal (details supplied). [42670/24] - Departmental Budgets
503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if a positive decision will be expedited.... - Departmental Projects
505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan... - Social Welfare Payments
506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the State pension non-contributory, now under review for a person (details supplied) will be expedited... - Departmental Staff
507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff working in the social welfare appeals office; the grades of these staff members; and the average time... - Social Welfare Payments
508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carer’s support grant by a person in County Kerry (details... - Social Welfare Code
509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce the payment of illness benefit for the self-employed in view of the fact that they find themselves in... - Pension Provisions
510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first and full-year cost of the impact of introducing legislation to give the entitlement of an unmarried cohabitant to a... - Departmental Budgets
511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the living alone allowance by €3, €5, €7, €10 and... - Social Welfare Benefits
512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment changes made to the treatment benefit scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024 [42907/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal for domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied); and if... - Social Welfare Payments
514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a carer’s allowance application; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals
515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension appeal (details supplied); when a decision will be likely to be reached in this case,... - Social Welfare Payments
516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if or when child benefit might be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals
517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43038/24] - Social Welfare Schemes
518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing the telephone support allowance to €5 and making it an additional entitlement on the... - Employment Schemes
523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the work activation measures that are currently under the remit of her Department; the full-year cost of each of... - Social Welfare Schemes
524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full year cost of extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to those in receipt of the working family payment; and if... - Rural Schemes
526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the main recommendation of the review of the rural social scheme published in July 2024; the plans to implement any... - Social Welfare Schemes
527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the qualifying conditions for the newborn baby grant announced in budget 2025; if children born in November 2024... - Social Welfare Payments
529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an application for working family payment in the case of a person (details... - Social Welfare Appeals
530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a decision on a disability allowance appeal has taken so long (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Schemes
531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews of disability allowance carried out in 2023 and 2024 to date; the number of people who had their... - Departmental Properties
534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacant properties owned by her Department; and the number of which are houses or residential properties. [43151/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Eligibility
536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in County Cork (details supplied) is entitled to the fuel allowance. [43190/24] - Pension Provisions
538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether persons ineligible for the auto-enrolment retirement savings scheme due to be introduced in 2025 because they already... - Social Welfare Payments
539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a working family payment application by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if... - Grant Payments
541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grants her Department has provided to social enterprise representative bodies since October 2023, in tabular form; and if...
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