Written answers

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • General Register Office
    434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that the research room for the general records is now only open one day a week, down from five, which is...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Payments
    436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will carry out a review of a disability allowance for a person (details supplied). [18762/24]
  • Carer's Leave
    437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the current criteria regarding carers leave/benefits (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the available State supports for people with disabilities seeking work or already working; if she plans to improve supports;...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with reference to the Departmental contract with An Post, if her Department has put in a penalty clause on any welfare...
  • Broadband Infrastructure
    440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of copper communication lines within her Department that are currently in active operation and for which her...
  • School Meals Programme
    441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a DEIS school (details supplied) will receive funding for hot school meals; if so, when this will be approved; and if she...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if people receiving a disability payment and who transfer to the State pension will still be eligible for any additional...
  • State Pensions
    443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for State pension (contributory) that were refused by her Department in each month of 2023 and...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the current status of the application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of an individual (details...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly whereby people who are wheelchair users and who are receiving a civil service pension and who...
  • Widow's Pension
    446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State plans to open eligibility to widow's pension to those who were not legally married but in a long-term committed...
  • State Pensions
    447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a contributory pension investigation (details supplied). [18979/24]
  • Departmental Data
    449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of disability allowance applications which were submitted in the period 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; the...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what protocols are in place for people who refuse the offer of work while in receipt of jobseeker’s payments; if...
  • School Meals Programme
    455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 23 April 2024, if the national standards for school meals stipulates that...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a full payment of child benefit will be approved for a person (details supplied) and their partner, as both are in the...
  • EU Directives
    457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list all Acts and Statutory Instruments sponsored by her Department which became law from 20 February 2020 to date in 2024...
  • Widow's Pension
    458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the actions her Department has taken in relation to the entitlement of an unmarried...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the jobseeker’s benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out to all consultancy firms for any services rendered; and the cost per contract in 2023 as a whole and to...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of exceptional needs payments under the supplementary welfare allowance paid in each month; the total and...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of heating supplement payments that were paid under the supplementary welfare allowance for each month from...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an individual applies for the additional needs payment, if this can be used for hospital transportation where the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for fuel allowance was refused for a person in receipt of disability allowance (details supplied);...
  • School Meals Programme
    468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of school children now in receipt of hot meals, by county, in tabular form. [19340/24]
  • Departmental Funding
    469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to her Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on delays experienced by returning emigrants in obtaining a PPSN; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a response to their enquiry regarding the methodology for the calculation of...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of applications for the long-term carer contributions scheme; the number of successful and unsuccessful...
  • Widow's Pension
    473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when people who have lived with long-term partners that have passed away will be entitled to apply for widow’s pension...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the conditions for the PRSI contributions for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds; the reason a person...

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