Written answers
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
1370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding how additional payments for children resident in IPAS accommodation are allocated; and if he will... - Social Welfare Benefits
1371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a carer’s benefit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department could examine a PUP enforcement case (details supplied). [18506/25] - Social Welfare Payments
1373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a disability allowance claim (details supplied); if he will investigate the length of... - Social Welfare Benefits
1374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person working as a school caretaker who is laid off for school closures is entitled to claim pay related jobseeker's... - Social Welfare Payments
1375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the review of the rural social scheme which was launched on 24 July 2024, what the updated position is with... - Social Welfare Schemes
1379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications registered per operational scheme for the period of 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will... - Social Welfare Appeals
1384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare appeals, requested per operational scheme for the period of 2020 to 2024; and if he will... - Social Welfare Payments
1387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the assessment guidelines for exceptional needs payment issued by community welfare officers, specifically in... - School Meals Programme
1389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to address issues pertaining to the hot meals programme for special schools (details supplied); and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Payments
1390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to amending the eligibility criteria for the living alone allowance, to allow individuals who... - Social Welfare Code
1393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the additional costs of disability for older people aged 65 years and over; if consideration has been given to... - Social Insurance
1396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the lower rate of employer's PRSI rate of 8.8% was reduced by 0.5%. [18841/25] - Social Welfare Benefits
1397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to the comments of the Taoiseach in May 2022, regarding examining the potential introduction of paid maternity and... - State Pensions
1398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review a pension application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18869/25] - Employment Schemes
1399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times a person working part time can be required to attend a Local Area Employment Service for a duration of... - Social Welfare Payments
1400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for aligning the rate of disability allowance with jobseeker’s payments, particularly given that many... - Social Welfare Code
1402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to single adults with disabilities who are living independently, with limited or no family supports;... - Social Welfare Payments
1403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the fuel allowance increased to €39 per week. [18969/25] - Employment Schemes
1406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures to support and promote employment opportunities for persons with disabilities; the progress made under the... - Social Welfare Appeals
1407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of an appeal for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and serious consideration be given to granting the... - Public Services Card
1409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will address an issue regarding public service cards (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Climate Action Plan
1410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the public and private financial resources required and available to support his Department’s plans to... - Departmental Funding
1411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and... - School Meals Programme
1412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a report on the inspections which took place in 2024 of schools participating in the Hot Schools Meals... - Social Welfare Schemes
1413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process by which his Department will contact all those aged 70 years or over in receipt of free travel; the way they... - Social Welfare Payments
1414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to take rent and mortgage costs into account when a person is applying for supplementary welfare... - Departmental Contracts
1415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); the details of contracts... - Social Welfare Payments
1416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on a humanitarian assistance scheme application submitted by a person (details supplied); if... - School Meals Programme
1417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the text of correspondence (details supplied) from a school to parents that disclosed that children in... - Social Welfare Payments
1418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 293 of 10 April, the maximum age of an adoptee on their date of placement by which... - Employment Support Services
1419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider establishing an independent employment support service, separate from the HSE, for people with... - Social Welfare Payments
1420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports that exist for self-employed people who pay PRSI class S who are diagnosed with a serious illness... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a full review of the social welfare entitlements of a person (details supplied) will take place. [19512/25] - School Meals Programme
1423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to cases whereby schools that have been selected for the hot school meals programme but wish... - Social Welfare Code
1424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of the inequitable treatment of young widowed people in Ireland, particularly in the areas of taxation,... - Civil Marriages
1425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will advise of the difference between a solemniser and a celebrant for the purpose of officiating at weddings and... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) and provide support for this person to access their full... - Social Welfare Payments
1428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for an older person who needs a new roof but does not have insurance; and if he will make a statement... - School Meals Programme
1430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has concerns regarding the quality consistency of the school meals programme with regard to the Healthy Ireland... - State Pensions
1432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence regarding State pension category (details supplied); and if he will... - Social Welfare Payments
1433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to allow part-time workers or learners to avail of the back to education payments; and if he will make a... - Legislative Measures
1435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give prompt consideration to the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025 (details supplied); and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
1436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will change the rules in order to backdate jobseeker's pay-related benefit for workers who have lost their jobs since... - Departmental Schemes
1438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider including androgenic alopecia in the treatment benefit scheme in order that those affected can be... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered for qualification for half carer’s allowance. [19911/25] - Social Welfare Appeals
1440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to expedite an invalidity pension appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19937/25] - Social Welfare Code
1441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm if it is possible for self-employed workers to increase their PRSI contributions to allow them to avail of social... - Social Welfare Benefits
1442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what interventions can be undertaken by his Department to address the difficulty faced by a person (details supplied) in... - Departmental Schemes
1443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on a claim made under the humanitarian assistance scheme (details supplied); if he will... - Social Insurance
1445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year yield that would be generated by raising by 0.1% rate of employers PRSI. [20153/25] - Social Welfare Eligibility
1446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made for a humanitarian assistance scheme application for a person (details supplied) in County... - Social Welfare Appeals
1447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the disability claim decision in relation to person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on... - Citizens Information Services
1448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Citizens advice centres in Limerick; and the number employed in each centre and the grade of each employee, in... - Information and Communications Technology
1449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all IT systems used by his Department can utilise the síneadh fada; where this is not the case, to provide the list... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [20319/25] - EU Directives
1451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of all EU directives which are awaiting transposition in his Department; the date on which transposition... - Departmental Properties
1452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of all properties his Department have rented from 2015 to date in 2025, including the length of tenancy;... - Departmental Contracts
1453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether an external company is contracted to provide cleaning services to his Department building; and if so, the name of... - Social Welfare Appeals
1455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to expedite a disability allowance appeal that is ongoing since 11 June 2024 in respect of a CAMHS survivor (details... - School Meals Programme
1457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will intervene in a situation regarding the provision of hot lunches at a school (details supplied); and if he will... - Social Welfare Appeals
1458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their carer’s allowance appeal, given that the... - State Pensions
1459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current policy with respect to the cessation of the widows or widowers contributory pension when an individual in... - Social Welfare Rates
1460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasoning around keeping jobseeker’s allowance and supplementary welfare allowance at its current rate given... - Departmental Data
1461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will disclose which groups have lobbied him regarding the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024, the... - Departmental Staff
1462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown, by Department or office, of the percentage of employees who have disclosed a disability for... - Social Welfare Appeals
1464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it is taking the Social Welfare Appeals Office nearly two years to make a section 318 decision in the case of a... - Social Welfare Payments
1465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider a matter regarding a disability allowance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Code
1466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what the current plans are regarding the potential removal of means testing for carers, as committed to in the Programme for... - Social Insurance
1467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider granting a person (details supplied) additional PRSI credits for the purposes of the State pension... - Social Welfare Appeals
1468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of request for back pay by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20734/25] - Social Welfare Payments
1470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when carer’s allowance will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - State Pensions
1472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in Ireland under the EU temporary protection directive that were paid the non contributory State... - Social Welfare Appeals
1473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20934/25] - International Protection
1477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of the beneficiaries of temporary protection payment since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, by... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the case of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Tax Code
1484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on extending the widowed parent tax credit beyond five years; his further views on extending financial supports... - Social Welfare Benefits
1485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial assistance available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21229/25] - Departmental Policies
1486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there has been any change in policy in relation to sending people to Seetec faster after they apply for... - Departmental Data
1487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide figures for the number of people who have had their jobseekers’ payments cut each month to date in 2025;... - Social Welfare Rates
1489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he plans to increase the levels of hourly payment made under the wage subsidy scheme which helps enterprises employ those... - Social Welfare Appeals
1490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeals meeting for disablement benefit will be made for a person (details supplied). [21282/25]
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