Written answers

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Small and Medium Enterprises
    510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assistance or guidance his Department or agencies under the remit of his Department is providing to small business owners...
  • Budget 2026
    511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will confirm that all weekly contributory and weekly non-contributory pensioners will receive the full ten euros...
  • Departmental Data
    512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the eligibility criteria for the new fuel allowance payment for those in receipt of the working family payment,...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that people are receiving letters informing them they are not eligible for the exceptional needs payment...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to please review the case of a person (details supplied) in the hope that his son can maintain his social welfare because of...
  • Departmental Data
    515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the EU Member States that made restitution for historically discriminatory social welfare, particularly in the case of women...
  • Departmental Contracts
    516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that has been spent by his Department to conduct tendering processes for public infrastructure projects in 2020,...
  • Departmental Data
    517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension his Department has received in 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of...
  • Departmental Staff
    518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals officers assigned to assessing both applications and appeals, respectively, for the State pension...
  • Emigrant Support Services
    519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work being done by his Department, and agencies under its remit, to facilitate, in line with the...
  • Social Welfare Application Forms
    520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carer’s allowance application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Common Travel Area
    521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether UK pensioners residing in the Republic of Ireland (details supplied) are entitled to receive the UK winter fuel...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has engaged with, or intends to engage with, the UK department for work and pensions regarding the recent...
  • Departmental Programmes
    526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 25 September 2025, the means by which these programmes are increasing the...
  • Vacant Properties
    527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the vacant buildings owned by his Department or by agencies under the remit of his Department in Dublin 2, 4,...
  • Pension Provisions
    528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 8 October 2025, if charges under My Future Fund differ for participants who are...
  • Social Insurance
    529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the social insurance contributions of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Data
    530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare claims currently awaiting a decision, in each scheme, in County Wexford; the average waiting...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance application will be approved and backdated as soon as possible (details supplied). [57222/25]
  • Departmental Data
    532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline all the supports available from his Department for families with twins, in particular for families who are...
  • Departmental Reports
    533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of all reports, including consultancy reports commissioned by his Department from 1 January 2024 to date in 2025,...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance claim by a person (details supplied); the options available to them to resume payment; and...
  • Departmental Strategies
    535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps he is taking to highlight the need for self-employed persons to pay their own PRSI (details supplied). [57345/25]
  • Departmental Data
    536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will list the countries with which Ireland has reciprocal agreements regarding social insurance contributions for...
  • Departmental Reviews
    537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his Department’s assessment of the number of workers who may be financially disadvantaged by transferring from...
  • Birth Certificates
    542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to register a birth with a different gender other than male and female on a birth certificate; and if he...

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