Written answers
Thursday, 25 April 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Flood Relief Schemes
2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made under the humanitarian aid scheme for uninsured householders in 2023, particularly on flooding,... - Food Poverty
4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to seek more sustained, long-term solutions to support families experiencing food poverty during school... - Social Welfare Eligibility
7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing the punitive means test for the carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Reports
10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Protection annual report for 2023 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18434/24] - Equal Opportunities Employment
13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of organisations in receipt of the workplace equipment adaptation grant in 2023 in County Cork; and if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline, further to the recent scrapping of the green paper on disability reform, her plans to introduce a cost of... - Raidió Teilifís Éireann
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff, including total WTE positions and grade breakdowns, working in the Department's scope section; if the... - Social Welfare Payments
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered any options to improve the speed with which applications for disability allowance or similar... - Pension Provisions
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her assessment of the impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision to award a pension to a widower who was not married but... - Social Welfare Eligibility
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on her examination of the issues facing kinship carers who receive nominal contributions from birth... - State Pensions
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide a State pension for those currently in receipt of the increase for qualified adult under their... - Pension Provisions
25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specifics regarding the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by her Department presently; and if she will make... - Labour Activation Measures
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that was allocated in 2019 to 2023 to companies engaged by her Department in providing labour activation... - State Pensions
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to allow for caring periods under 20 years to be included for long-term caring contributions for the purposes of the State... - Employment Rights
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what threshold needs to be cleared for an appeal to be granted by her Department’s appeals office in respect of... - Poverty Data
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that one in five (19.7%) people unable to work due to disability live in consistent poverty, that this is... - Social Welfare Benefits
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in respect of the means test for the carer's allowance; how she plans on ensuring that more carers can avail of the... - Parental Leave
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allocate funding to extend paid parental benefit to cover at least the first year of a child’s life; and if... - Social Welfare Appeals
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she is aware of the substantial discrepancies that exist between initial applications for domiciliary care and the... - Departmental Bodies
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when we can expect to know the findings of the interdepartmental working group between her Department and the Department of... - Employment Support Services
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the tender for EmployAbility which was due to be published in April 2023; and if she will make a... - Disability Services
36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the green paper on disability reform will impact students in higher education receiving disability payments. [9087/24] - Employment Support Services
37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the position regarding the mandatory retirement age for participants on the job initiative scheme to ensure... - Social Insurance
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is concerned at the impact proposed cuts to employers’ PRSI will have on the Social Insurance Fund; and if she... - Social Welfare Payments
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider altering the Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 to apply the reduced rate... - Social Welfare Eligibility
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether ME is eligible for disability allowance. [18407/24] - Pension Provisions
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants who have been refused insurance-based private pensions on the basis of insufficiency of contributions... - Social Welfare Payments
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times an individual in receipt of carer’s allowance had their allowance stopped, in each of the past ten... - School Meals Programme
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the hot school meals programme to a school (details supplied) on a permanent basis; and if she... - Departmental Priorities
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce a universal disability payment of at least €350 a week; and if she will make a statement on the... - Disability Services
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an expected launch date of the reformed reasonable accommodation fund, following the recommendations from... - Social Welfare Benefits
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered designing new initiatives to tackle under-claiming of benefits, which is widespread across her own... - Social Welfare Payments
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the appeals process for domiciliary care allowance payments that are refused; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what steps she intends to take regarding the extent of the backlog in processing disability allowance claims. [18474/24] - International Protection
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on her engagements with Cabinet colleagues regarding the ending of the Temporary Protection Directive next... - Social Welfare Eligibility
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to give consideration to extending the carer’s benefit to include the self-employed; and if she will make a statement...
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