Written answers
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on an appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43898/24] - Social Welfare Eligibility
620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider paying travel expenses to assist with sourcing a lunch supplier for a school (details supplied). [43913/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently investigate a serious anomaly in an application for invalidity pension (details supplied). [43927/24] - Social Welfare Appeals
622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for partial capacity benefit in the case of a person (details... - Social Welfare Benefits
623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of international protection applicants since 2019 who have been issued PPS numbers and who subsequently applied to... - Social Welfare Appeals
625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal of a decision for admittance into the register of solemnisers (details... - Social Welfare Benefits
626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 17 October 2024, of the 15,947 people who are currently in receipt of a... - Social Welfare Code
631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will introduce the legislation for cohabiting couples to gain access to the widow’s, widower’s and... - Social Welfare Benefits
632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a carer’s allowance application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Community Employment Schemes
634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to correspondence received (details supplied), whether her Department exerts control over the salaries and the job... - Pension Provisions
636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension certificate can be issued to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44069/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the procedures for means testing for disability allowance are carried out; and if she will make a statement on the... - School Meals Programme
640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what engagement her Department has had with the Department of Education in ensuring that school meals can be provided to... - Social Welfare Appeals
641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a decision in regard to a carer’s allowance appeal in respect... - Pension Provisions
643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the findings of a means test relative to an application for a non-contributory pension in the name of a person (details... - Social Welfare Benefits
644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 8 October 2024, to confirm that the high scenario cost estimate of €2... - Departmental Funding
648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided to Turas Nua and Seetec for the operation of the JobPath scheme each year from its inception to date; if... - Departmental Schemes
649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum rate awarded per child per day for the school meals scheme 2024/25; the funding rates for hot meal lunches and... - Pension Provisions
650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a couple (details supplied), whose sole income and means is their contributory pensions, is entitled to a top-up under the... - Social Welfare Benefits
651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, for example, a Polish couple who meet the habitual residency condition, work in Ireland for over 12 months, have a child... - Social Welfare Appeals
652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal for invalidity pension (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Public Services Card
653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy regarding the issuing of a public services card for adopted persons; when the review of the public services card... - Social Welfare Benefits
654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a claim by a person (details supplied) for disability allowance will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Staff
655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of civil servants, by grade, in her Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those... - Social Welfare Benefits
656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees that the double payments that will be made over Christmas by her Department should be extended to include those... - Birth Certificates
657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether it is possible to have the General Registry Office recognise a UN birth document for a refugee born overseas (now an... - School Meals Programme
658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what assistance her Department can offer in circumstances where a small rural school is having difficulty in procuring a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a fuel allowance application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Civil Service
663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and... - Social Welfare Benefits
664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the diseases of Crohn’s and colitis as qualifying conditions for disability and invalidity... - Social Welfare Eligibility
666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to ensuring that individuals who have been part of the social welfare system for several years... - Departmental Schemes
667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the Farm Assist for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made on a claim originally... - Social Welfare Benefits
668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a domiciliary care allowance review (details supplied); the current processing... - Social Welfare Appeals
670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently approve a social welfare appeal for an invalidity pension payment (details supplied). [44492/24] - Departmental Schemes
671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county in receipt of the carer’s support grant, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in... - Pension Provisions
672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on how the State pension payment is being protected, as set out in the Programme for Government, in... - Social Welfare Appeals
676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time it is taking for the Independent Social Welfare Appeals Office from receipt of an appeal to decision, broken... - Departmental Schemes
677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are discussions ongoing with her Department on behalf of the administrators of CE schemes to provide extra funding... - Departmental Staff
679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 126, 127, 128 and 129 of 23 October 2024, the number of staff coming to an end of... - Departmental Reviews
681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review a case (details supplied); to review the four questions/points outlined; and if she will make a statement on the... - School Meals Programme
682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that Irish-sourced foods are used in the delivery of the school meals programme; if any attempt was made... - Money Advice and Budgeting Service
683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided to MABS in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [44845/24] - Departmental Contracts
684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts (details supplied) a company had with her Department in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the nature of... - Departmental Equipment
685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department... - Social Welfare Appeals
686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a disability allowance appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Departmental Schemes
687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds on which an optician can charge an additional fee in cases in which a person has been approved for a free eye... - Social Welfare Appeals
688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal following a successful... - Community Employment Schemes
689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to engage on the issue of community employment supervisor pay to uphold the commitment given to re-enter talks given to the... - Pension Provisions
690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for applying different rules as regards contributory pension credit eligibility for family carers who have... - Social Welfare Inspections
691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of deploying inspectors to assess compliance with State benefits for family carers, in each of the past ten... - Social Welfare Appeals
692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a review of the decision not to award a transition payment to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Schemes
693. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the fuel allowance was last increased. [45028/24] - Social Welfare Payments
696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a claim to a reduced pension by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person in County Cork (details supplied) has been refused the carer's allowance; if the appropriate income... - Social Welfare Payments
699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the case of a person (details supplied) where they are being requested to repay monies owed from rent...
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