Written answers
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Departmental Schemes
180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider altering the criteria for the means test for fuel allowance to allow a greater income threshold for those... - Departmental Data
181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all... - Departmental Contracts
182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide the list of capital projects for IT services, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had... - Social Welfare Fraud
184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments that are collected once every seven or eight weeks in south Tipperary; if there is a... - Social Welfare Appeals
185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal (details supplied). [30884/25] - Social Welfare Payments
186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis undertaken into the distributional impact of the new jobseeker’s pay-related benefit ahead of its... - Social Welfare Code
187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will consider adapting the income assessment period for jobseeker’s pay-related benefit to reflect that... - Social Welfare Benefits
188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare payments open to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31049/25] - Community Employment Schemes
189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection is he is concerned that recent policy changes outlined in correspondence (details supplied) will impact on projects that... - Departmental Staff
190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical assessors employed by his Department; if he can identify the average number of professional-opinion... - Social Welfare Benefits
192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be carried out in relation to the decision not to award the carer’s support grant to a person... - Social Welfare Rates
193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the occasions since 2000 that the weekly means limit for the increase for qualified adult allowance for recipients of the... - Social Welfare Schemes
195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if kinship carers are eligible for the back to school allowance. [31180/25] - Social Welfare Code
196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending child benefit to families in the international protection process. [31181/25] - Child Poverty
197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost and feasibility of setting up a new departmental team to address child poverty. [31182/25] - Social Welfare Rates
198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost to increase working age social welfare payments by €1. [31183/25] - State Pensions
202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of restoring the right to retire at 65 and reintroducing the State pension. [31187/25] - Pension Provisions
203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of introducing a long term carer’s pension. [31188/25] - Social Welfare Rates
204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of a €1 increase to the household benefits gas or electricity payment. [31189/25] - Departmental Schemes
205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of expanding the free travel scheme to include those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance.... - Pension Provisions
206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of pension provision for foster carers and kinship carers; figures to be given separately.... - Social Welfare Schemes
207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending the guardian payment to cover children over the age of 12. [31201/25] - Social Workers Register
209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of hiring a case worker to help social welfare applicants. [31203/25] - Social Welfare Application Forms
210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of increasing support for social welfare applicants struggling with literacy or accessibility.... - Paternity Leave
211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of doubling the provision of paternity leave benefit to four weeks. [31206/25] - Parental Leave
212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending parent’s leave benefit up to eight weeks. [31207/25] - Social Welfare Schemes
213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of providing up to 20 days of reproductive leave, as outlined in the reproductive... - Departmental Staff
214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of retired officials re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in the past four years and to date in... - Social Welfare Appeals
215. 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...
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