Written answers

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her officials have been in discussions with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding a policy to...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 978 of 17 January 2024, the definition of qualified children; the definition of...
  • Social Insurance
    366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can introduce a mechanism whereby teachers who are on career breaks are able to pay PRSI contributions and to have...
  • Social Welfare Fraud
    367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of fraudulent claims of payments through her Department, by payment type of those residing in the State and those...
  • Departmental Contracts
    368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has availed of services and-or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past...
  • State Pensions
    369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for a State pension contribution for a person (details supplied) will be processed and a decision made; the...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the full amount of disability benefit will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • State Pensions
    371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a non-contributory pension application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current timeframe for social welfare appeals; what resources are in place to address appeals; if she will allocate extra...
  • Oireachtas Committees
    373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to comments made by the Secretary General of her Department at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) (details...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for invalidity pension lodged on 8 May 2023 will be decided (details supplied); the reason for delay; and if...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the recent Supreme Court decision with regard to unmarried widowers without children; his Department's timescale...
  • Social Welfare Rates
    377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the last time the back to school clothing and footwear allowance was increased; and the estimated full year cost if this...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals officers assigned to assessing both applications and appeals, respectively, for disability allowance....
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the review process by which carers are having their carers allowance reviewed and the invasive nature of...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what the current processing times are for all social protection payments in her remit; and if she will make a statement on...
  • School Meals Programme
    381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options open to parents of primary school children who are coeliacs to avail of the school meals programme and whose...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive child benefit. [4151/24]
  • Pension Provisions
    383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate if an entitlement to the widow’s pension can be backdated in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a file will be sent from the disability allowance section of her Department to the social welfare appeals office to...
  • Social Welfare Rates
    385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider an increase in the qualified adult allowance payment in line with any increase in social welfare...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of PPS numbers issued in Ireland from 1 January to 31 December 2023; the breakdown by nationality that each of the...
  • Ministerial Staff
    387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delayed decision on a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied).; and if she will...

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