Dáil debates

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  • Social Welfare Code (10 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing discretion on the 18.5 hours per week employment exemption, under the carer's allowance scheme,...
  • Employment Support Services (7 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to increase part-time employment participation levels among those in receipt of jobseekers payments...
  • Social Welfare Benefits (16 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has undertaken any assessment on the merits of ending the means test on the carer’s allowance. [37630/24]
  • Emergency Accommodation (12 speeches)
    13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place in terms of free travel access for people currently living in emergency accommodation. [37681/24]
  • Pension Provisions (20 speeches)
    15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider reducing the current 20-year minimum criterion of full-time caring to an incapacitated person under the long-term...
  • Social Welfare Code (7 speeches)
    17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the terms of the widow's or widower's pension, particularly in respect of non-married or co-habiting couples, and the judgment...
  • Social Welfare Benefits (7 speeches)
    18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the child benefit payment to assist families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37624/24]
  • Social Welfare Benefits (5 speeches)
    19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she intends to examine a cost of disability payment; if she intends to introduce reforms to the disability payments;...
  • Employment Support Services (6 speeches)
    25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to increase employment participation levels among those in receipt of disability payments from her...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility (8 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the removal of the means test for the carer's allowance in budget 2025; and if she will make a statement...