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Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Colm Burke
217. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if a living alone increase payment for a widower (details supplied) will be backdated to the date of death of their spouse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20947/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Patricia Ryan
218. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Social Protection to investigate the reason a person (details supplied) has had their carer’s allowance cut. [21000/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Robert Troy
219. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will investigate the reason a couple, who are separated but forced to live together due to financial constraints, must be assessed jointly for a working family payment application. [21009/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Brendan Griffin
220. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a working family payment application by person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21051/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Brendan Griffin
221. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a one-parent family payment rate appeal by person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21052/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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State Pensions
Willie O'Dea
222. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection if an individual (details supplied) has an entitlement to apply for the State pension (contributory), in view of the fact that they have 244 reckonable contributions paid since 2014 and they also have mixed contributions for a number of other years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21057/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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School Meals Programme
Cathal Crowe
223. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if a school (details supplied) can reassess how funding allocated by her Department through the hot school meals programme can be spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21064/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Widow's Pension
Mark Ward
224. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection if, in the circumstance where someone is in receipt of the widow's pension, works part-time but their job closes during the summer months, there is any additional payment to their widow's pension that they are entitled to during this period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21071/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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School Meals Programme
Michael Healy-Rae
225. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will comment on a matter with regard to the school meals programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21090/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Personal Public Service Numbers
Bernard Durkan
226. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection to indicate when a PPS number will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21094/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
227. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of an application for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied). [21118/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
228. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding a claim for carer’s allowance or carer’s benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the reason this application was refused in light of the compelling medical evidence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21141/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Departmental Expenditure
Neasa Hourigan
229. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Social Protection the awards made both with and without a tender process to management consultancy firms (details supplied) by her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department for each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form and classed by firm; the purpose and a brief description of the awards; the value of the awards and the total amounts paid; the timeline or timeframe of the contracts; and the desired or completed output. [21170/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Cian O'Callaghan
299. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a privately run service (details supplied) is obligated to recognise the State travel pass for older people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20803/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Departmental Staff
Darren O'Rourke
300. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE medical officers working in her Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [20157/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Pension Provisions
Catherine Connolly
301. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 20 February 2024, to provide an update on the long-term carers’ contribution scheme; the number of applications received to date; the number approved; the number rejected; the number pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20174/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Seán Canney
302. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has plans to address the current legislative anomaly where people who were forced to retire from work on health grounds have been refused free travel as they are not getting a disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20175/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Bernard Durkan
303. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) against the decision to reduce his wife's payment, with particular reference to their high outgoings on medical costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20179/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor
304. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person will be permitted to have credits applied to their welfare application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20228/24]
Wed, 8 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
John McGuinness
305. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) has been approved. [20261/24]