Written answers

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Housing Policy
    694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the post budget campaign of an organisation (details supplied); the actions he will take...
  • Social Welfare Code
    695. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his position on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63695/25]
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to reconsider an application a rent supplement application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Cancer Services
    697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the free travel scheme can be extended to persons with cancer who, due to their condition and treatment, may be able to...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the levels of support available to those impacted by long-Covid following the final extension of the temporary special...
  • Social Welfare Code
    699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the decision to reject a disability allowance application for a person (details supplied), who had previously...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider extending children’s allowance payments to a full year following the death of a child; and if he will make...
  • Employment Schemes
    702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which employment and income-support policies will be aligned with Pillar Two (Employment), including measurable...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of pending appeals in respect of jobseeker’s allowance; and the average waiting time for a decision. [62968/25]
  • Social Welfare Code
    704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider increasing the means test threshold for the disability allowance in line with the changes made to carer's...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    706. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if jobseekers benefit payments for the month of August will be awarded to a substitute teacher (details supplied); and if he...
  • Departmental Staff
    707. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacancies which arose at principal officer level for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in his...
  • Education Schemes
    708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schools across County Louth that operated a breakfast club for the academic school year 2024-2025 ; and the number of...
  • School Meals Programme
    709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schools who operated school meals scheme across County Louth for the academic school year 2024-2025; and the number of...
  • Social Welfare Code
    712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that while the Government has spoken about sustainable increases and restraint, the reality is that disabled...
  • Cost of Living Issues
    717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide analysis from his Department on the progress towards achieving Minimum Essential Standard of Living over...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time for disability allowance and for carer’s allowance applications, by county, in...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for appeals to the Social Welfare Appeals Office for disability allowance cases, in tabular form;...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the impact of the withdrawal of support...
  • Social Welfare Code
    721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on whether a revision of categories of PRSI contributions in respect of those who pay class K contributions is...
  • Departmental Legal Cases
    722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total legal costs in defending judicial reviews of planning decisions involving his Department and/or agencies within the...
  • Deportation Orders
    723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 652 of 12 November 2025, the number of cases where payments have been stopped and...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider an addition fuel payment for polio survivors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Pension Provisions
    725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for clarity in relation to employees who currently have private pension arrangements or AVC’s in place which are not...
  • Social Welfare Code
    726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports available to parents caring for adult children suffering from severe drug addiction and related mental...
  • Departmental Data
    727. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients who are in receipt of Jobseeker's allowance unbroken continuously in excess of 12 months, 24 months...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rights to social welfare a returning emigrant who worked in Ireland for 12 to 13 years before emigrating to the USA has;...
  • School Meals Programme
    730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will urgently intervene in a case involving difficulties that a primary school (details supplied) is having with his...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement an emergency winter payment for those people with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Budget 2026
    733. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to conduct a full review of the effects Budget 2026 will have on those with a disability; and if he will make a statement on...

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