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Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Pauline Tully
735. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason self-employed people are not entitled to claim carer's benefit; if she will consider changing the eligibility criteria whereby self-employed people can claim carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12074/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Pension Provisions
Pauline Tully
736. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will adjust the new flexible pension arrangements to allow people under the age of 70 years to work if they so choose and claim contributions towards a State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12075/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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School Meals Programme
Steven Matthews
737. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the challenges facing some schools (details supplied) in sourcing venders to provide a hot school meals programme; if any measures are in place to address such cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12077/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Reports
Thomas Pringle
738. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the Pensions Council-commissioned independent evaluation report by (details supplied) into the alternative auto-enrolled pensions proposal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12104/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Reports
Thomas Pringle
739. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the Pensions Council's own evaluation report into the alternative auto-enrolled pensions proposal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12106/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Reports
Thomas Pringle
740. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if the Pensions Council has presented her with both the Pensions Council-commissioned independent evaluation report by a person (details supplied) and its own evaluation report into the alternative auto-enrolled pensions proposal by another person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12108/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Pension Provisions
John McGuinness
741. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a history of contributions made by a person (details supplied) to determine if they have sufficient contributions to qualify for a State pension (contributory). [12114/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Personal Public Service Numbers
Bernard Durkan
742. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department has declined to issue a PPSN to a person (details supplied) given they are an Irish citizen and have been living in Ireland since December 2022, who requires same to access a number of services; if their application will be reviewed with a view to issuing the number as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12161/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Offices
Brendan Griffin
743. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if additional resources will be provided to the social welfare appeals office to address the three-month delay in registering appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12259/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Staff
Brendan Griffin
744. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff in the independent social welfare appeals office for the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12264/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Brendan Griffin
745. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals registered by the independent social welfare appeals office for the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12265/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Brendan Griffin
746. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the average time it takes to complete appeals submitted to the independent social welfare appeals office for the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12266/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Bernard Durkan
747. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12292/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Bernard Durkan
748. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12317/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Mairéad Farrell
749. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if a public services card is required for a person to collect their pension from their local post office or if it is acceptable to use another form of identification, a passport for example to do this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12325/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Data
Catherine Murphy
750. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of bodies she funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12357/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Cian O'Callaghan
751. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection the financial supports available for people to assist in furnishing their unfurnished social home; the eligibility for these supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12467/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Colm Burke
752. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has conducted a review of the optical benefit scheme; and if so, to outline in detail the outcome of this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12510/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Colm Burke
753. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if a change to the optical benefit scheme eye examination fee for contractors is under consideration; if this matter will be raised at her Department’s next meeting with stakeholders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12511/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Cathal Crowe
754. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection what supports her Department will put in place for those who have been on special leave with pay and whose payments are due to cease, but who cannot return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12512/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Bernard Durkan
755. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in undertaking review of case of a person (details supplied) who requested same on 19 February 2024 by email; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12532/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Michael Creed
756. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the designation of long-Covid as an occupational illness. [12533/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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School Meals Programme
Sorca Clarke
757. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection what supports are in place for small schools that are unable to source a supplier for the hot school meals programme due to suppliers deeming it as an uneconomical move for their business; her plans to ensure that each school approved for the hot school meals programme receives these meals in due course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12554/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Pauline Tully
758. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has concerns regarding the equitability of the fact that disabled people over the age of 65 years were not entitled to the cost-of-living disability lump sum payments contained within either Budget 2023 or Budget 2024. [12611/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Healy-Rae
759. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12637/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Healy-Rae
760. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if they can pay contributions to augment their contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12676/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Pearse Doherty
761. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection further to comments made by him on Budget Day (details supplied), what support are available to households that do not qualify for the mortgage interest tax credit on the grounds of insufficient income or income tax liability; if a scheme has been developed in concert with the Department of Employment and Social Protection in line with the aforementioned comments and; if not, the status of this commitment. [12691/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Gender Recognition
Carol Nolan
762. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether any social welfare payment administered by her Department would be lost by a claimant in the event of them changing their gender, from male to female or from female to male, under the provisions of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12696/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Louise O'Reilly
763. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 246 of 7 December 2023, the number of appeals that were decided on by the original decision-making official in the year preceding the July 2023 changes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12706/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Funding
Robert Troy
764. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish a list of the NGOs funded by her Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in tabular form. [12727/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Meetings
Carol Nolan
765. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that she or officials from her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department have had with an organisation (details supplied) including its representatives from 1 January 2019 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12747/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Mattie McGrath
766. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update from her Department in response to the recent decision of the Supreme Court to rule in favour of a person (details supplied) in relation to their exclusion from the widower's contributory pension scheme; the current position of her Department in relation to this matter; when this ruling will be reflected in legislation and schemes within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12811/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Bernard Durkan
767. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was not paid the double week in January when they were in receipt of a carers allowance; if the matter will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12815/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Catherine Murphy
768. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to change the treatment of persons who are in receipt of supplementary pension payment in the context of customer service and general treatment by her Department (details supplied). [12839/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Frankie Feighan
769. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing parents with children the right to claim domiciliary care allowance while living outside the State for the purpose of availing of specialist care for their children in that particular country, that is not currently available in Ireland; and if she will consider a mechanism where a special application could be made whereby the designated care and treatment programme for the child in the other state was sanctioned by an approved Government agency in Ireland before the parents could then apply for the domiciliary care allowance while living and caring for them abroad. [12861/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Cian O'Callaghan
770. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the level of means testing her Department is caring out on a family carer (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12889/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Claire Kerrane
771. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the income thresholds for the fuel allowance in the case of under 70s in light of recent increases for those aged over 70 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12957/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Claire Kerrane
772. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider those aged under 70 years with modest occupational pensions which they worked for, who are unable to access the fuel allowance; if she will examine this cohort in the context of the next Budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12958/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Claire Kerrane
773. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to continue increasing the weekly income threshold for the over 70s when accessing the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12959/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Michael Healy-Rae
774. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12960/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Communications
Paul Donnelly
775. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by her Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024; and if she will include the fees expanded, by the name of personality and the name of the campaign they were engaged on, in tabular form. [12979/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Properties
Robert Troy
776. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure disability access is installed at the Intreo office, Athlone. [13006/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Michael Creed
777. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding an invalidity pension payment to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13009/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Seán Canney
778. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse her decision to only pay child benefit for students over 18 years from May 2024 who are still in school but not currently in receipt of child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13018/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Bernard Durkan
779. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for the State pension (non-contributory) in the case of a person (detail supplied) has been refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13039/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Staff
Alan Farrell
780. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if a pay claim for citizens information staff was received by her Department from the Citizens Information Board in its budget proposals for 2024; if she will support the pay claim for current staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13066/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Dara Calleary
781. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Social Protection if changes are going to be made to jobseekers allowance and X and O system to allow people working as care assistants/home help assistants to claim assistance (details supplied). [13081/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Robert Troy
782. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if children's allowance payments could be made retrospective to the date on which a student turns 18 years (details supplied). [13084/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Neasa Hourigan
783. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Social Protection if, as part of her plans to extend the payment of child benefit to 18-year-olds who are in full-time education, she will allow those with children turning 18 before 1 May 2024 to retrospectively avail of child benefit for the months between their 18th birthday and 1 May 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13085/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Michael Creed
784. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) whose sole means is their State pension (contributory) is entitled to an increase in same due to the reduced level of payment. [13104/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Bernard Durkan
785. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress of the review for domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13109/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
James Lawless
786. Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13113/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Bernard Durkan
787. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection when a working family payment will issue/be reinstated to a person (details supplied), with particular reference to their special family requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13150/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Data
Patricia Ryan
788. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Social Protection the length of time it is taking her Department to process and complete applications for each payment (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13160/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Richard Bruton
789. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection where the payment of a qualified adult allowance is under review, if half of the savings of a couple are automatically attributed to the qualified adult, regardless of whose name is on the bank account; and whether in the same way if the savings are in an account in the name of the qualified adult, that person will still only be assessed with half of the savings. [13176/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
790. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for her Department and all public bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13203/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Michael Creed
791. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances under which a pension payment may continue posthumously to next of kin; the family members entitled to such continued payments and the duration of these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13222/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Brendan Griffin
792. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if an invalidity pension award in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be backdated to the date they were found medically suitable for a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13237/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Services Card
Violet-Anne Wynne
793. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection the legal status of the Public Services Card to be used as a form of identification of an individual; her plans in this respect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13327/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Rental Sector
Violet-Anne Wynne
270. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are any supports beyond HAP to assist struggling families pay their rent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11436/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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State Pensions
Peadar Tóibín
271. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if former members of the Catholic clergy are entitled to a contributory pension if their bishops did not sign them up on the scheme. [11232/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Mark Ward
272. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection when applying domiciliary care allowance for a child if a diagnosis is required (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11278/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Mark Ward
273. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the qualifying criteria for an applicant for domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11290/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Colm Burke
274. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if the community ophthalmic services scheme standard eye examination contractors’ fee is now to be equal to the eye test fee payable to contractors under her Department’s optical benefit scheme; will the optical benefit scheme fee itself now be raised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11301/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Éamon Ó Cuív
275. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are published national guidelines or SWA policy guidelines in relation to the operation of the supplementary welfare system and, in particular, in relation to additional needs payments and exceptional needs payments; if so, how can they be accessed by public representatives and the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11378/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Éamon Ó Cuív
276. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Social Protection the maximum percentage payment payable to a person living on jobseekers' allowance who has no savings under the exceptional needs payment supplementary welfare allowance; the reason for the maximum percentage if the applicant cannot borrow money or pay the difference; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11379/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor
277. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person will receive their pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11455/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Bernard Durkan
278. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection if the entitlement, if any, to rent a room in any way inhibited the entitlement to widow’s pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11479/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Bernard Durkan
279. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether application for an exceptional needs payment can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11485/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Bernard Durkan
280. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether reconsideration can be given to the application for fuel allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11489/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Bernard Durkan
281. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can continue in less than full-time or part-time employment along with reduced social welfare payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11493/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Public Transport
Claire Kerrane
119. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review eligibility for the free travel scheme for people who have a severe illness but who are not in receipt of the relevant qualifying payment; if consideration has been given to allowing discretion in certain cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10905/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Brendan Smith
120. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection are insurance contributions carried over to persons who are foster parents and not in employment outside the home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10916/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Brendan Smith
121. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons who are foster parents are eligible for contributions to be included under the homemaker’s scheme for pension purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10917/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Pension Provisions
Bernard Durkan
122. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a statement of widow’s pension paid in 2022 to a person (details supplied) can issue to the client as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10927/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Departmental Staff
Carol Nolan
123. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to clarify the number of redundancies, or so called ‘exit-packages’, that have been paid to staff or personnel at any level of seniority in her Department, or in any agency or body under the aegis of h Department, from 2018 to date; the value of each and the total value, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10993/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Departmental Staff
Catherine Murphy
124. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11022/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Bernard Durkan
125. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of his appeal against the decision to reduce a person's payment (details supplied) with particular reference to their high outgoings on medical costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11027/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Pension Provisions
Seán Crowe
126. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if any pensioners lost out between the time of pension increases in January 2024 and the raising of the fuel allowance means threshold some eight weeks later; and if all pensioners were compensated for the loss incurred to them if there was a discrepancy during that time. [11037/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
127. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for disability allowance (details supplied) will be assessed on current means only; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11054/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Pension Provisions
Brendan Griffin
128. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for invalidity pension by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11103/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Departmental Staff
Alan Kelly
129. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection to list all staff/management exit packages for staff/management in their Departments that they sanctioned since 2016 (details supplied).
[11167/24]
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Paul Kehoe
130. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of a domiciliary care allowance application (details supplied), and when a decision be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11191/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Marian Harkin
435. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection how plans are advancing in introducing a pay related benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9967/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Seán Sherlock
436. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of a rent supplement claim in respect of a person in County Cork (details supplied); and if any documentation is outstanding which may be pertinent to the application in advance of a decision being made. [9968/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Legislative Measures
Emer Higgins
437. Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection to review the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill to ensure benefits akin to adoptive and maternity leave are provided for the care of newborn infants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9980/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Paul Murphy
438. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection why 'S' class contributions do not quality for carer’s payment; if there are any exceptions to this rule; if there is consideration around changing this; and if not, why not. [10056/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Seán Canney
439. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person paying PRSI contributions between the ages of 66 and 70 can use those contributions to reach the threshold of 520 contributions to access a contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10164/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
440. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection what the average wait time for an additional needs payment application is; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10206/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Colm Burke
441. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to issue, given this has been pending for some time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10227/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Michael Fitzmaurice
442. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Social Protection when maintenance payments to carers will be disregarded as means for social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10237/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Duncan Smith
443. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection to ensure that the €500 grant towards the cost of a hairpiece, wig or hair replacement for people who suffer hair loss due to illness is not restricted, therefore preventing people who suffer from alopecia to avail of this grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10246/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Departmental Advertising
Pauline Tully
444. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent on advertising and promotions within her Department in 2023 and for January 2024, in tabular form. [10273/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Duncan Smith
445. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate when an appeal by a person (details supplied) to the Chief Appeals Officer against a refusal to award him the invalidity person will be heard, and if same can be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10277/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Redundancy Payments
Christopher O'Sullivan
446. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection the expected time scale for employees to receive information on their redundancy entitlements (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10324/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
447. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person in County Cork (details supplied) has been refused illness benefit. [10396/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Departmental Properties
Matt Carthy
448. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the ground rents payable by her Department or agencies under its remit, by named property, by name of landlord and by amount payable, in the years 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10422/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Legislative Measures
Ivana Bacik
449. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on recent legislation which passed in Westminster to create an optional bereavement certificate for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks’ gestation; and her plans to introduce such a similar initiative here. [10428/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Violet-Anne Wynne
450. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the number of applications received for exceptional needs payments from County Clare in the past 12 months; how many were granted; how many were rejected, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10440/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Patrick Costello
451. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance; the number of applications for the fuel allowance; the number of refusals for the fuel allowance over the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10513/24]