Written answers
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Community Welfare Services
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will overhaul the modus operandi of community welfare officers in order that they revert to holding assistance clinics... - School Meals Programme
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has any metrics for tracking wastage in the hot school meals programme; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the recipients of the fuel allowance, by county, in tabular form; his plans to expand the scheme; and if he will make a... - Pension Provisions
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the planned auto-enrolment retirement savings scheme will be designed to favour environmental and socially ethical... - Departmental Schemes
85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employers that have availed of the wage subsidy scheme for the years 2020 to 2025 respectively; the number of... - Employment Support Services
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have availed of the Work Placement Experience Programme for the years 2020-2025; the benefits that... - Social Welfare Benefits
90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of partial capacity benefit for the years 2020-2025; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason job sharing teachers who apply for carer's benefit are being refused as they are deemed not to work enough hours,... - Social Welfare Benefits
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the dental benefits a person in receipt of carer’s allowance or carer’s benefit can avail of; whether his... - Social Welfare Code
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2026, if the maximum rate of disability allowance were increased to €258.50 per week; if the...
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