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Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
1. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection if, in light of her not proceeding further with the consultation on the Green Paper on disability payments, she intends to examine a cost-of-disability payment; and whether she intends to introduce different reforms to the disability payments. [18467/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
oral
Citizens Information Services
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
3. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps she and her Department are taking to ensure workers in citizens information companies are provided with a pay increase, given the length of time since their last pay increase; and if she will provide the funding to ensure this happens [18468/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
oral
EU Directives
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
5. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection to clarify whether she intends to taper benefits received by beneficiaries of temporary protection in advance of the ending of the temporary protection directive in 2025. [18469/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
23. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on her examination of the issues facing kinship carers who receive nominal contributions from birth parents and who may then be prevented from receiving guardianship allowance. [18470/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
33. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection whether she is aware of the substantial discrepancies that exist between initial applications for domiciliary care and the level of success of appeals with regard to same; and what she intends to do to address this. [18473/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Employment Support Services
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
35. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on the tender for EmployAbility which was due to be published in April 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18471/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
50. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection what steps she intends to take regarding the extent of the backlog in processing disability allowance claims. [18474/24]
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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Sentencing Policy
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
16. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Justice if she has received from the Judicial Council the sentencing guidelines committee's three-year work plan for sentencing guidelines, as committed to in the Judicial Council's 2022 annual report. [15783/24]
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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Sentencing Policy
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
27. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Justice if she has received from the Judicial Council, the sentencing guidelines committee's procedure for developing sentencing guidelines, as committed to in the Judicial Council's 2022 annual report. [15782/24]
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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Public Sector Pensions
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
62. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to discuss the differing pension entitlements that exist for members of An Garda Síochána based on joining the force pre- or-post 1995. [7917/24]