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Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Staff
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
251. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to a delay in some payments to primary school teachers on contracts of fixed duration in multiple locations, which in some cases have resulted in teachers having to visit Intreo offices to seek emergency payment; the cause of the delay; the number of persons who have been affected; when they can expect to be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50790/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Special Educational Needs
Michael Healy-Rae
252. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education the reason that July provision is not made available for children who are in foster care (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50826/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Staff
Colm Burke
253. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education if an additional SNA will be allocated to a school (details supplied), given that the current SNA is required to give over 85% of their time to one student, who has very complex needs, and that the remaining students are not receiving the required level of support which they require; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50923/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Accommodation
Michael Healy-Rae
254. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education if she will provide extra accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50936/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
255. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50940/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
256. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50941/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
257. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50942/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
258. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50943/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
259. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50944/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
260. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50945/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
261. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50946/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
262. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50947/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
263. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50948/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
264. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50949/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
265. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50950/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
266. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50951/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
267. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50952/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
268. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if a school transport route will be considered for the Ardagh village area going to a school (details supplied). [50953/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Peter Burke
269. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50954/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Steven Matthews
270. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Education if she will consider supporting funding for travel passes to be used on all public transport services for staff of special schools, only to be used while travelling with their students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50962/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Schools Building Projects
Joe Carey
271. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Education the status of a school project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50973/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Staff
John McGuinness
272. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education if the special circumstances relating to a pupil (details supplied) will be re-examined in the context of his urgent need for a SNA at a school; if the services such as speech and language therapy which they require will also be provided as a matter of urgency given that their positive progression is being hampered; and if she will expedite the matter. [50979/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Staff
Brendan Griffin
273. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education if there is an existing panel of qualified educational psychologists in the south-west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51020/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Staff
Brendan Griffin
274. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education the reason that a current educational psychologist post vacancy in the south-west is not being filled from the existing educational psychologist panel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51028/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Staff
Peter Burke
275. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on career breaks for teachers (details supplied). [51038/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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School Transport
Bernard Durkan
276. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education if and when school transport will be facilitated in the case of the daughter of a person (details supplied) who has been refused school transport despite the school being their nearest post-primary all-Irish school; if arrangements can be made to ensure that she can avail of the school transport service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51054/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Special Educational Needs
Michael Ring
277. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Education the reason that a visit to a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has not taken place given that this visit was promised over a month ago. [51085/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Departmental Data
Thomas Pringle
278. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the rate of income inequality in Ireland both before and after transfers in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51002/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Departmental Schemes
Cathal Berry
279. Deputy Cathal Berry asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the auto-enrolment retirement savings system; the way that it will be funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50990/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Danny Healy-Rae
280. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection if the carer's allowance payment would be exempt from a means test if the medical needs of the patient and the level of care being provided are assessed that it should be sufficient. [51022/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Departmental Funding
Thomas Gould
281. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has increased resourcing to MABS in view of the increase in financial insecurity within homes. [46260/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Judicial Reviews
Catherine Murphy
282. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of judicial reviews taken against her Department in the past ten years to date in 2022, in tabular form; if she will indicate in the reply the body and or person that initiated judicial review proceedings; the number of judicial reviews that remain open and or active; and the totality of costs incurred by her Department as a result of judicial reviews over that time period. [50764/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Brendan Griffin
283. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for fuel allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50780/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Brendan Griffin
284. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for fuel allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50782/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Kathleen Funchion
285. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that the disability allowance is means tested for couples who are not married; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50783/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Energy Policy
Bríd Smith
286. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the date that the social welfare double payment will be distributed; when the €500 payment for persons with a disability will be made; when the first €200 electricity credit will be applied to bill payers' accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50804/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Appeals
Paul Kehoe
287. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection the time period that will be put in place for a decision in relation to the deprivation of savings to be reconsidered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50805/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Pension Provisions
Michael Healy-Rae
288. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that persons who are fostering children are not entitled to accumulate credits to go towards their pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50825/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Departmental Data
Matt Carthy
289. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications received to date in each county for essential needs payments in respect of new home kits; the number of applications that were successful and the average processing times per application per county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50827/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Paul Kehoe
290. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 15 September 2022, the reason that the recent fuel allowance claim for a person (details supplied) was refused; the circumstances under which they may still qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50849/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Seán Sherlock
291. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied). [50851/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Paul Kehoe
292. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are circumstances whereby a person can claim a second period of carer’s benefit for a child previously claimed for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50852/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
John McGuinness
293. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if domiciliary care allowance will be approved immediately in the case of a child (details supplied) based on the medical reports and the diary information submitted. [50980/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
John McGuinness
294. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if domiciliary care allowance and arrears will be paid to a person (details supplied); if payments will be backdated to the year of the first assessment when the child was three years of age and when they were first informed verbally by a Department official not to apply as they would not qualify; and if the case put forward them will be investigated. [50985/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
John McGuinness
295. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if carer's allowance will be put back into payment for a person (details supplied), in line with the specified timeframe set out in the original decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50986/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Kieran O'Donnell
296. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50988/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Kieran O'Donnell
297. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for an invalidity pension. [50991/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Seán Sherlock
298. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a working family payment claim by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [50992/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Denis Naughten
299. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce an income disregard for someone in receipt of a means tested social welfare payment where they rent out a vacant room in their home, similar to the rent-a-room scheme operated by the Revenue Commissioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51012/22]
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
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Social Welfare Benefits
Denis Naughten
300. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce an income disregard provision for persons with a disability in receipt of a welfare allowance payment where they are medically certified as being unable to reside alone in order that they can rent out a room to a non-connected person, without it impacting on their payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51013/22]