Written answers
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Eligibility
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the programme for Government's commitment to significantly increase the income disregards for carer’s... - Community Welfare Services
96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the humanitarian assistance available to those impacted by Storm Éowyn in Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have been made to parents in Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Payments
98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person currently receiving carer’s allowance and a child increase for two children will now be dropped... - Social Welfare Eligibility
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans he has in place to expand the eligibility criteria for the free travel pass; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have been made to parents in Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Schemes
101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he has taken to ensure storm readiness and to support those impacted by storms given the recent issues that... - Social Welfare Benefits
103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the newborn baby grants scheme; and if he will make a statement on the... - State Pensions
104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the draft Bill will be finalised to advance the entitlement of unmarried cohabitants to the widows, widowers or... - School Meals Programme
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the quality and nutritional value of some of the food provided under... - Social Welfare Eligibility
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider front-loading the promised removal of the means test for carers in order that the means test is entirely... - Public Services Card
108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the renewal of public services cards needs to be done in person and no longer via phone or online; if he will... - Social Welfare Fraud
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out in fraudulent pandemic unemployment payment payments since the start of the Covid pandemic. [7722/25] - Social Welfare Schemes
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the reasonable accommodation fund and the disability awareness support scheme; if there are... - Social Welfare Benefits
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have now been made to parents in Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Schemes
112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he plans to deal with the very slow delivery of reimbursements from the humanitarian assistance scheme despite saying at... - Social Welfare Appeals
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the number of appeals in relation to disability payments compares to appeals for other social protection payments; and if... - School Meals Programme
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans for the further extension of hot school meals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8385/25] - Social Welfare Schemes
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts the Government is taking to assist victims of recent extreme weather events in Kerry, such as the extreme... - Social Welfare Payments
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an individual who is currently receiving carer’s allowance and a child increase for two children will now... - Community Employment Schemes
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether consideration is being given to doubling the training and development grant associated for each community employment... - School Meals Programme
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to roll out hot school meals to all secondary schools; when the... - Rural Schemes
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when changes to the rural social scheme will be enacted to enable participants of the scheme to sign contracts for three... - Social Welfare Benefits
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications in total for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) made in 2024; the number granted at first instance;... - Community Welfare Services
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has considered additional staffing given increased applications for additional needs payments. [8364/25] - Social Welfare Payments
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the interdepartmental working group to examine and review the system of means testing for... - Children in Care
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give consideration to the provision of foster carers with a State pension as per the Programme for Government... - Social Welfare Schemes
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on a reformed scheme to give effect to all nine recommendations outlined in the review of the... - Social Welfare Benefits
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a timeline for the implementation of the Programme for Government commitment to “Explore a targeted Child... - Social Welfare Schemes
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a variation in the manner in which HAS1 forms received since storm Éowyn have been dealt with in different... - Social Welfare Payments
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the establishment of a working age payment as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he... - Social Welfare Schemes
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for humanitarian assistance that have been received by his Department in the wake of storm... - Social Welfare Eligibility
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the situation whereby a carer claiming maternity leave can no longer claim carer’s payments; and if... - Community Employment Schemes
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of community employment scheme supervisor remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Schemes
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will offer rapid intervention on an urgent case of a person (details supplied) whose mobile home was entirely destroyed... - Social Welfare Benefits
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he plans to strengthen the safety net for our older citizens, improving their quality of life and promoting dignity and... - State Pensions
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to examine what modifications or changes may be made to support women who currently fall outside the existing... - Social Welfare Appeals
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average current waiting time for a social welfare appeal in the State; how waiting times for a decision vary across... - Social Welfare Schemes
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to report on his Department’s humanitarian assistance for those impacted by storm Éowyn in Galway; and if he will... - Social Welfare Appeals
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the current timeframe for social welfare appeals; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to a system whereby those who on carer’s allowance, and who are working, are able to... - Social Welfare Schemes
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the HAS1 forms are means tested since Storm Éowyn; if payment will issue in cases where frozen food had to be... - Social Welfare Payments
147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce an annual cost of disability support payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8430/25] - Social Welfare Appeals
148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason social welfare applicants who have submitted appeals are having to wait up to eight months for a decision; and if... - Social Welfare Eligibility
150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will be reviewing the criteria for providing the fuel allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8263/25] - Social Welfare Schemes
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration could be given to the provision of free transport to those in emergency accommodation. [8363/25] - Social Welfare Benefits
154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of newborn baby grants that have now been made to parents in Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Child Poverty
155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new child poverty target will be set; the future process to establish that new figure; and if he will make a... - School Meals Programme
156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will investigate the reasons for a funding change in the food grant given to a school (details supplied);...
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