Written answers
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence regarding widows pension (details supplied); the alternative supports,... - Education and Training Provision
990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason time spent on vocational training opportunities schemes are not considered as part of the required cumulative paid... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person, who has reached the age of 70, and is retired, must pay PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Departmental Properties
992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of premises in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10633/25] - Social Welfare Appeals
993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made by his Department’s appeals office in relation to a request for an oral hearing; and if... - Social Welfare Payments
994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in receipt of carer's allowance, a qualifying payment for fuel allowance, had their... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
995. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is mortgage interest relief available in 2024 for people that did not have sufficient tax liability to assess the... - Community Welfare Services
996. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what steps are being taken to ensure that individuals living in nursing homes, such as individuals (details supplied), are... - Data Protection
997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a schedule of fines issued to his Department in respect of breaching general data protection regulations,... - Social Welfare Payments
998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to urgently address and rectify a carer’s allowance overpayment for a person (details supplied). [10818/25] - School Meals Programme
1000. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on when the next round of applications under the school meals programme will be accepted, as the only... - Social Welfare Benefits
1001. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will make provision for widows/widowers to avail of free travel at 60 years of age regardless of whether their... - Social Welfare Appeals
1002. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement... - Pension Provisions
1003. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the widow's pension will be extended to unmarried couples on the death of one partner; the number of years living... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the... - Public Sector Staff
1005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all persons that are recruited to work in his Department and all the related agencies of his Department are fully vetted... - Social Welfare Appeals
1006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the disability allowance appeal decision in relation to person (details supplied); and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
1007. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a working family payment application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
1008. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to reinstate a grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine a case affecting carers, allowance entitlements for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement... - Social Welfare Schemes
1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he plans on including varifocals in the optical benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11221/25] - Business Supports
1011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the compensation available to businesses which had to close for a period due to storm Éowyn; and if he will make a... - Departmental Budgets
1012. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total budget allocation to the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities in each of the years since 2011,... - School Meals Programme
1013. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to introduce a school meals scheme at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
1015. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for working family payment (details supplied) that was submitted in November... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1016. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when he plans to make the changes to the carer’s allowance means test; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Appeals
1018. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
1019. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have availed of the free travel pass for those medically unfit to drive, by county; and if he will... - Employment Schemes
1020. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons annually, by county, who have been sanctioned for not fully and-or in part engaging with employment... - Departmental Contracts
1022. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a list of all contracts that a company (details supplied) has with his Department. [11526/25] - Social Welfare Eligibility
1023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare payments a person (details supplied) is entitled to. [11564/25] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1024. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total expenditure and number of claims over the lifetime of the Covid-19-related lay-off payment scheme; the average... - Social Welfare Rates
1025. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount each weekly social protection payment should be at to maintain their value compared to pre-pandemic levels (2019)... - Social Welfare Benefits
1026. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to replace jobseeker’s assistance; what consultations have been held on the matter; and if he will make a... - Employment Support Services
1027. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce a new structure and employment supports for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement... - Social Welfare Schemes
1028. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have received the HAP under Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the emergency humanitarian assistance scheme... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1029. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of the carer’s allowance, and who has passed the means test for the fuel allowance, is... - Social Welfare Benefits
1030. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the carer’s allowance who have applied for the fuel allowance; and of these, the... - Social Insurance
1031. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the lower rate of PRSI in Class D that applied to civil servants who commenced employment prior to April... - Social Welfare Appeals
1032. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a carer’s appeal by a person (details supplied) that was submitted in... - Social Welfare Schemes
1034. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the introduction of a certificate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11681/25] - Social Welfare Eligibility
1035. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress being made on abolishing the means test for carers. [11755/25] - Departmental Staff
1036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual amount claimed by special advisers attached to him or his Department outside of their regular salary, since 1... - Departmental Properties
1037. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list the buildings occupied or vacant or land in Dublin 8, 10 or 12 which his Department owns or is leasing, and have... - Departmental Reviews
1038. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 471 of 4 March 2025, if his Department will not be recovering the amount despite the... - Social Welfare Rates
1039. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to provide an additional, second rate of means-tested child benefit to the households containing the... - Social Welfare Benefits
1040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to deliver child benefit to mothers from the tenth week of pregnancy; and if he will consider the... - Social Welfare Payments
1041. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to backdating arrears for six months for a person (details supplied); and if he... - State Pensions
1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); if he will support this query; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Payments
1043. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a €50 weekly cost of disability payment to all recipients of disability-related... - Social Welfare Schemes
1044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the amount paid under the HAS1 and HAS2 humanitarian aid scheme due to storm Éowyn; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals
1046. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension appeal by a person (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine subsidies for the elderly (details supplied) who cannot claim them because their children are still... - Social Welfare Schemes
1048. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will reconsider the refusal of the humanitarian assistance scheme payment to a person (details supplied).... - Social Welfare Payments
1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if child benefit payments can be backdated in a case in which a parent (details supplied) did not register their child at... - Social Welfare Schemes
1050. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if direction has been given to staff in his Department to refuse humanitarian assistance scheme applications based on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether a person needs to be in receipt of jobseekers allowance for three months to qualify for the training support grant;... - Social Welfare Schemes
1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received under the humanitarian assistance scheme for loss of food due to extended power outages... - Social Welfare Benefits
1056. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual domiciliary care allowance applications or social welfare appeals relating to domiciliary care... - Departmental Bodies
1057. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting... - Social Welfare Schemes
1061. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the humanitarian assistance scheme received by his Department in 2025 and for each of the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1062. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update for a person (details supplied) on their carer’s allowance application; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits
1064. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department intends to restore child benefit for children in full-time third level education beyond 18 years of age;... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1065. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for carers will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12342/25] - Legislative Measures
1066. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the Bereaved Partner’s Pension Bill; and when he anticipates the pension will be available to... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1067. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the decision not to award the household benefits package to (details supplied). [12363/25] - Social Welfare Schemes
1069. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is considering any changes to the income test for his Department’s humanitarian assistance scheme for... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1070. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews carried out on carer’s allowance over the last five years, and the number per year, in tabular... - Social Welfare Schemes
1074. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 27 February 2025, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications... - Departmental Reviews
1077. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 4 March 2025, if he will consider commissioning research, external or... - Social Welfare Schemes
1078. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a humanitarian assistance scheme application was refused for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal whose... - Gender Recognition
1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is planning to introduce legislation to include non-binary people in the already-established Gender Recognition Act... - Social Insurance
1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount of both employer PRSI contributions and employee PRSI contributions owed to the Social Insurance Fund,... - Social Welfare Schemes
1083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is no leeway for those who were unable to access information about the humanitarian assistance scheme due... - Artificial Intelligence
1084. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each... - Public Sector Staff
1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reviewing public sector sick leave policies to ensure greater flexibility for employees... - Social Welfare Code
1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he plans to take to ensure that necessary and appropriate care is being provided to family members in the...
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