Parliamentary questions

Special Educational Needs

Paul McAuliffe

364. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Education if her Department will assist with finding a school place in a special school for a child (details supplied). [36052/22]

Special Educational Needs

Denis Naughten

365. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education the number of mild and moderate classes sanctioned by her Department at primary level in each of the past three years and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36069/22]

Special Educational Needs

Denis Naughten

366. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education the number of mild and moderate classes sanctioned by her Department at post-primary level in each of the past three years and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36070/22]

Special Educational Needs

Denis Naughten

367. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education the number of autism classes sanctioned by her Department at primary level in each of the past three years and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36071/22]

Special Educational Needs

Denis Naughten

368. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education the number of autism classes sanctioned by her Department at post-primary level in each of the past three years and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36072/22]

Schools Building Projects

John Lahart

369. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education for a progress report in respect of a school (details supplied); when news may be expected in terms of advancing the school’s major building works project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36119/22]

Site Acquisitions

Richard Bruton

370. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if her Department has acquired a site for a school (details supplied); and if commencement work to service the site has begun. [36123/22]

Public Sector Pensions

Peadar Tóibín

371. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education the number of auxiliary staff within schools who have retired over the past ten years who were entitled to a pension from her Department. [36134/22]

Special Educational Needs

Sorca Clarke

372. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the funding that is available through her Department for the provision and training costs for rapid prompt boards for children on the ASD spectrum at home and in school. [36176/22]

Special Educational Needs

Mark Ward

373. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education the number of special school places there are in Stewarts Care, Palmerstown; if the school is at full capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36213/22]

Special Educational Needs

Ivana Bacik

374. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if she intends to develop further services and supports to address the needs of children and young persons with autism; and if the implementation of such services and supports will be informed by feedback from members of the autism community. [36229/22]

Special Educational Needs

Seán Sherlock

375. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Education if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be examined. [36264/22]

Schools Building Projects

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

376. Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for Education the status of the action points issued following the 2018 visit to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36275/22]

Departmental Policies

Michael Healy-Rae

377. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that the appropriate strategic direction is issued to all European Union member states to ensure that there is the adequate inclusivity and robust approach towards the relevant areas of policy in relation to the commitment to reduce consistent poverty below 2% (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36087/22]

Employment Support Services

Thomas Gould

378. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Social Protection the services and supports available to a person with an intellectual disability in Cork city seeking employment. [36152/22]

Community Welfare Services

Seán Sherlock

379. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection if all applicants for a supplementary welfare allowance payment are entitled to an in-person meeting with a community welfare officer to assist with applications for same. [34799/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Seán Sherlock

380. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of payments that have been made to date under the additional needs payment scheme; the average amount of each payment; and the categories of payments assigned for the scheme. [34802/22]

Citizens Information Services

Seán Sherlock

381. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection when all citizens information offices will close and become subsumed into existing departmental structures. [34800/22]

Appointments to State Boards

Michael Ring

382. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of former civil servants who are currently serving on State boards under her remit; the number of former county managers and chief executive officers of local authorities who are currently on each of the State boards under her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33860/22]

Social Welfare Appeals

Sorca Clarke

383. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the status of the disability allowance appeal for a person (details supplied). [35257/22]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Bríd Smith

384. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has any discretion in relation to income threshold qualification limits for eligibility for the fuel allowance; if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered for access to the scheme given the circumstances of their refusal, their age and circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35265/22]

School Meals Programme

Claire Kerrane

385. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she intends to extend the provision of the hot school meals scheme to continue beyond term time in 2022 and throughout the summer months, as it did for the previous academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35271/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Claire Kerrane

386. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of maternity benefit and paternity benefit who also received another means tested social protection payment from 2019 to date; if she will advise on these figures as an overall percentage by payment type and year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35295/22]

Departmental Funding

Rose Conway-Walsh

387. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of PhD positions funded by her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department; the average stipend or salary paid to full-time PhD candidates through these funding streams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35438/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Anne Rabbitte

388. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied); if their credits from England have been considered as part of the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35448/22]

State Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

389. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a contributory or non-contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35460/22]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Seán Canney

390. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who lives with a sibling can get fuel allowance or if their sibling’s income is taken into account even though they are not a single household; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35500/22]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Seán Canney

391. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who was on disability allowance for many years and who took up a position on a community employment scheme can now make an application for the partial capacity benefit after having worked for four weeks on the scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35503/22]

Employment Support Services

Paul Murphy

392. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants who have started on the work placement experience programme; the number who are currently registered; the number of persons who have finished placements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35523/22]

Employment Support Services

Paul Murphy

393. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of complaints that have been received from participants on the work placement experience programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35524/22]

Employment Support Services

Paul Murphy

394. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of positions on the work placement experience programme that have been refused because the position did not meet the standards of the scheme or were removed for the same reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35525/22]

Employment Support Services

Paul Murphy

395. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of workplace inspections that have been carried out as part of the work placement experience programme; the number of placements that were found to be satisfactory or unsatisfactory; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35526/22]

Social Insurance

Pearse Doherty

396. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection if modelling with respect to deficits of the Social Insurance Fund included increases in other welfare payments over the time horizon considered by the report of the Commission of Pensions; if so, the basis of those welfare payment increases whether indexed to inflation, wage growth and so on; the rates of those increases in percentage or nominal terms; and the way that this expenditure contributed to the forecast deficits of the Social Insurance Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35527/22]

State Pensions

Eoin Ó Broin

397. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the plans, if any, that her Department has to ensure people in receipt of only a State pension as income are protected from the increasing cost of living. [35538/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Bernard Durkan

398. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection when a replacement bus pass will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35586/22]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Seán Sherlock

399. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 22 March 2022, if a person who is in receipt of a living alone allowance and fuel allowance will have the allowance protected if he or she is forced to take in a son or daughter due to the housing crisis; and if she will request her officials to take these circumstances into account. [35652/22]

State Pensions

Paul Murphy

400. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is now an appropriate time to reverse the unjust reduction to the State pensions of 36,000 older people which were cut due to changes in the State pension system in 2012, given that they have not had their pension rates restored in light of the current situation of rising prices (details supplied); and if she will reverse the changes brought in ten years ago. [35761/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Denis Naughten

401. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications that were refused for domiciliary care allowance in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of applications that were appealed for each of those years; the number that were successful on review for those years; the number that were successful on appeal for those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35803/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Denis Naughten

402. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications that were made for domiciliary care allowance in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35804/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Denis Naughten

403. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care allowance with dyspraxia as a primary diagnosis that were refused in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of those applications that were appealed for each of those years; the number that were successful on review for those years; the number that were successful on appeal for those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35805/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Denis Naughten

404. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care allowance with ASD as a primary diagnosis that were refused in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of those applications that were appealed for each of those years; the number that were successful on review for those years; the number that were successful on appeal for those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35806/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Denis Naughten

405. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care allowance with sensory processing disorder as a primary diagnosis that were refused in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of those applications that were appealed for each of those years; the number that were successful on review for those years; the number that were successful on appeal for those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35807/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Denis Naughten

406. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection if all applications for domiciliary care allowance are assessed by a medical assessor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35808/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Denis Naughten

407. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection the plans, if any, that she has to review the onerous application process for parents applying for the domiciliary care allowance, particularly in terms of family impact statements and care diaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35809/22]

Departmental Staff

Denis Naughten

408. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department employs medical assessors with specialist knowledge in areas such as occupational therapy, psychology, physiotherapy and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35810/22]

Employment Support Services

Sorca Clarke

409. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is being pursued by JobPath to have his or her new employer complete forms and provide details relating to rates of pay when JobPath had no hand, act or part in the person securing this employment and did not assist in securing the necessary training before employment commenced; the purpose of these forms; and the intended use of the data. [35827/22]

Departmental Staff

Michael Collins

410. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will release to a person (details supplied) the records relating to his transfer from the Department of Social Protection to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on secondment, as he has requested under freedom of information and general data protection regulation legislation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35836/22]

Departmental Bodies

Matt Carthy

411. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the bodies under her aegis in which persons will receive a pay rise from 1 July 2022; the role of each, where appropriate, or the anonymised salaries bands otherwise, the current remuneration and the proposed increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35859/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Matt Carthy

412. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to increase the amount of income disregarded in respect of the farm assist scheme to 30% to 40%, 50%, 60% and 70%, respectively; in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35863/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Matt Carthy

413. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the limit of off-farm earnings in farm assist by €5, €10 and €20; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35864/22]