Written answers
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Youth Unemployment
333. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is drafting plans to tackle youth unemployment in County Wexford with specific focus on those not in... - Social Welfare Benefits
334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of parents who availed of the original two weeks of parent’s benefit and leave; the number who then availed... - Dental Services
335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to receive treatment without incurring a charge payable to their treating dentist;... - Social Welfare Payments
336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of social protection payments made to a person (details supplied) to date; and if she will make a statement on the... - Pension Provisions
337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 22 June 2021, the number of claims made for the blind pension in 2020 and to... - Job Creation
338. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of jobs clubs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35898/21] - Personal Public Service Numbers
339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a delay in issuing PPSNs to new born babies as in a case of a child (details supplied);... - Social Welfare Appeals
340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal for a carer’s allowance will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [35920/21] - Departmental Data
342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of interest her Department has been charged for savings or other funds on deposit in Irish banks since negative... - Social Welfare Benefits
343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 851 of 15 June 2021, the location of the monthly child benefit payments to the... - Birth Certificates
344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a birth certificate application by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Schemes
345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families and children who received the back to school clothing and footwear allowance in 2020. [36013/21] - Covid-19 Pandemic
347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the enterprise support grant for businesses impacted by Covid-19 is not available for those who closed their... - Departmental Schemes
348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce new work placement experience programmes for the unemployed (details supplied); if so, when it will... - Freedom of Information
349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of occasions her Department has refused to process a request under freedom of information using section 15(1)(g)... - Departmental Schemes
350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the travel pass scheme can be extended to persons (details supplied) who have epilepsy and may not be able to drive due to... - State Pensions
351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a situation in relation to difficulties with the pension of a person (details supplied); and if she will... - Employment Schemes
352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is planned to look for tenders for a national employment service; the remit this service will have; the body... - Social Welfare Appeals
353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual cases heard by the Social Welfare Appeals Office in the context of scope section appeals on an... - Freedom of Information
354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied in the context of the freedom of information publication scheme that all logs are published and up to... - Social Welfare Benefits
357. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will facilitate employees of an airline (details supplied) to continue to receive jobseeker’s benefit when... - Covid-19 Pandemic
358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions were made to accommodate distance learning throughout the pandemic for those in receipt of social welfare... - State Pensions
359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person who has worked all their adult life can be denied their old age pension with notification that arrears... - Social Welfare Payments
360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social protection payments that have been denied due to debts to the Revenue Commissioners both with repayment... - Social Welfare Schemes
361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an application for carer’s allowance was submitted to her Department... - State Pensions
362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of which a review was requested on... - Employment Schemes
363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is considering additional measures or initiatives to help address the extremely high rate of youth... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to receive the pandemic unemployment payment retrospectively in cases in which a person did not claim the... - Employment Schemes
365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the job activation measures being considered by her Department in order to facilitate persons going back to work; the work... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has had their pandemic unemployment payment withdrawn; and if she will make a... - Youth Unemployment
367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the Pathways to Work strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36436/21] - Departmental Expenditure
368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual expenditure on the disability allowance for 2021; the estimated additional cost of increasing disability... - Disability Services
369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that was allocated for assistive technologies for persons with disabilities in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021,... - State Pensions
371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of introducing a total contribution approach to the State pension; and if she will make a... - Disability Services
372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the earnings disregard for the disability allowance by €10, €50 and... - Food Poverty
374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the new working group to tackle the issue of food poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Registration of Births
375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time for birth registration in the Civil Registration Office in the Lombard St. office; if there was a backlog...
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