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Tue, 21 May 2024
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School Meals Programme
Brendan Griffin
395. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason an issue with a school (details supplied) in County Kerry has still not been resolved. [22718/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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State Pensions
Michael Creed
396. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if an applicant (details supplied) will be approved for the maximum State pension (contributory). [22760/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
397. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the current number of recipients for each social welfare scheme. [22796/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
398. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the average, median, maximum and minimum number of recipients for each social welfare scheme in 2023. [22797/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
399. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline, with regard to the jobseeker’s benefit pay related scheme, noting the revised estimates, what the full-year cost of the proposed scheme will be. [22798/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Rates
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
400. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the qualified child increase by €1 for children under the age of 12 years and €1 for children over the age of 12 years, respectively. [22799/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Rates
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
401. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other scheme payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22800/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Rates
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
402. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the current young jobseeker’s rate of €129.70 by €1 per week. [22801/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
403. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of introducing a child benefit double payment. [22802/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
404. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of the JobPath scheme for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [22803/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
405. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of including the working family payment as a qualifying payment for fuel allowance. [22804/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Rates
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
406. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the annual carer’s support grant by €1. [22805/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
407. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending carer’s benefit to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22806/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Richard Bruton
408. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection whether a person in receipt of disability allowance, who receives a bequest, can have a trust established, which would be administered on their behalf to provide for long-term secure accommodation, instead of being immediately assessed under a means test; and if she will outline the conditions if any which would have to be met. [22808/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
409. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if all documentation (details supplied) was reviewed in the context of an application for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22820/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor
410. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be provided with a payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22866/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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School Meals Programme
Thomas Gould
411. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of DEIS band 1 schools refused funding for a breakfast club for the school years 2023-24 and 2024-25, respectively; the number of these in each county, in tabular form; and the rationale for same. [22887/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
412. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of social welfare recipients, by social welfare type in 2023; and the projected number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2024, disaggregated by social welfare type, in tabular form. [22908/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Rates
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
413. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the maximum weekly rates of social welfare payments, by social welfare type, in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the average payment received, by social welfare type in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22909/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Community Welfare Services
Pauline Tully
414. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE community welfare officers based in counties Cavan and Monaghan in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22949/24]