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Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Pension Provisions
Réada Cronin
135. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine, with urgency, a situation (details supplied). [33069/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Bernard Durkan
136. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason an income derived from contributions made by a PAYE employee to an approved retirement scheme is now deemed to be in self-employment when applying for jobseeker’s transition payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33107/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Payments
Duncan Smith
137. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection when the backdated increase in child benefit to the qualified child will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33115/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Departmental Equipment
Catherine Murphy
138. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of instances in which her Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was used. [33163/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Appeals
Michael Lowry
139. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Social Protection to confirm the qualifications of the officers and staff within her Department who are responsible for medically assessing applications for carer's allowance and disability allowance; if she will clarify whether the staff members who review the medical reports of these applications on appeal hold a more senior medical qualification from those who initially assess and reject the original application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33181/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Payments
Mattie McGrath
387. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the clear guidelines for carers in receipt of carer’s allowance where the person being cared for must travel abroad for treatment not available in this State (details supplied); what the carer must do to ensure that they will not have their payment stopped or be threatened with having their payment stopped if they have to leave the State for treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32097/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Holly Cairns
388. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection to make the fuel allowance a qualifying payment for carer’s allowance, including in circumstances where the carer is not resident with the individual they are caring for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32233/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Citizens Information Services
Thomas Pringle
389. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection when she expects the review of the draft service level agreements for citizens information service companies will be completed, as it appears from the board minutes of the Citizens Information Board obtained under FOI that the delay in rolling out these contracts sit with her Department, and it is almost two years since the previous service level agreements expired; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32257/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Frank Feighan
390. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department is currently considering applications under disablement benefit from former coal miners based in Arigna, County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32293/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Fire Service
David Cullinane
391. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Social Protection the manner in which a retained firefighter is assessed for jobseeker’s payments; the types of income which are reckonable and the types of income which are not; if there are any exemptions which apply to income earned by retained firefighters for call-out duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32335/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Departmental Data
Paul Donnelly
392. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade, working in the Blanchardstown Intreo centre as of 1 January 2022 and 27 June 2023, in tabular form. [32342/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Appeals
Anne Rabbitte
393. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a decision on the financial review on their disability allowance completed in view that they are in financial poverty as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32374/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Appeals
Anne Rabbitte
394. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a decision on an application for carer’s allowance completed; the reason the working family payment was suspended on submission of a carer’s allowance application as this has placed the family in financial poverty as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32375/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Anne Rabbitte
395. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a decision on their application for carer’s allowance completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32376/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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State Pensions
Pádraig O'Sullivan
396. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) does not qualify for a State pension (contributory or non-contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32385/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Pension Provisions
Gerald Nash
397. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection when she plans to introduce a pensions cost-transparency initiative, as referenced in the Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021 Second Stage Dáil Éireann debate on 22 September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32434/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Pension Provisions
Gerald Nash
398. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has carried out an “examination and assessment of the issues pertaining to the provision of information to pension scheme members in relation to costs and charges incurred by pension schemes and, if deemed to be required, to identify and develop the appropriate policy responses and associated methodologies”, as referenced in her Second Stage speech on 22 September 2022 on the Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32435/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Bernard Durkan
399. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the eligibility for household benefits in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32503/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Community Employment Schemes
Michael Ring
400. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will fund the external statutory audit costs for community employment scheme considering that the external statutory audit is now a requirement of community employment guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32582/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Pension Provisions
Mark Ward
401. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline what will happen to the pension entitlements of an individual born in 1944, who does not qualify for the full contributory pension, in the event of their spouse passing away; if they will be entitled to the widow’s pension; if so, the rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32584/23]