Written answers

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment changes made to the treatment benefit scheme, from 2021 to date in 2025. [26696/25]
  • International Protection
    414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will confirm reports that IPAS applicants/those who have received permission to stay are being granted vouchers...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding social welfare supports for those that work in a freelance capacity; if the exceptional needs payment...
  • Central Statistics Office
    416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. reply 794 of 15 May 2025, if his Department met with the CSO to discuss the changes to...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on a PPS application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26782/25]
  • Pension Provisions
    418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has provided, as requested, the record of contributions made by a person (details supplied); if she qualifies for...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that there is a disincentive for participants moving from TÚS to CE, given that they lose their...
  • Departmental Staff
    420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a lateral move can be considered for an employee of (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Public Procurement Contracts
    421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if framework-based procurement is included in his Department’s reporting of “tendered” procurement in...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline his plans to scale up control measures to tackle abuse of social welfare payments, as committed to in the...
  • Disability Services
    426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to reform the disability allowance payment and remove anomalies in the current means test for the payment as...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment changes made to the treatment benefit scheme from 2021 to date in 2025. [27161/25]
  • Departmental Staff
    428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE community welfare officers based in Roscommon in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [27162/25]
  • Departmental Policies
    429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he plans to recognise Covid and long Covid as illnesses and disabilities respectively; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Departmental Data
    430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families who applied for the domiciliary care allowance for each years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025,...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason carer’s allowance is automatically halved if a person receives the old-age pension; when this policy was...
  • Departmental Policies
    432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if endometriosis will be considered for long-term illness benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27534/25]
  • Employment Support Services
    433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 822 of 13 May 2025, the total amount of public funding paid by his Department to the...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27586/25]
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for Social Protection if he will consider increasing the electricity allowance under the household benefits package, which...
  • Departmental Inquiries
    438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the estates section of his Department has not issued the relevant documents in relation to the estate of a...
  • Legislative Process
    440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a status update on the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025 and its timeline for completion; and if he...

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