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Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Appeals
Bernard Durkan
815. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for child benefit in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27801/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Appeals
Thomas Pringle
816. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their appeal for a domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27803/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Employment Support Services
Colm Burke
817. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the number of people who are on the live register in each town in County Cork; the number of people on the live register for more than 24 months in each town in County Cork; the number of people who have been referred to the local area employment service in each town in County Cork since September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27815/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
818. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will process an application for a free travel companion pass (details supplied); if there is currently a backlog in processing free travel applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27843/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Mairéad Farrell
819. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are supports available for mortgage-holders who have lost income due to long-term illness or disability to help them stay in their own home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27856/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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State Pensions
Bernard Durkan
820. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection to indicate in the case of a person (details supplied) the income that he is deemed to received from his ARF which deemed him ineligible for JSB payment as a bridging payment before qualifying for the State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27861/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Schemes
Louise O'Reilly
821. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the current rate of pay for the job initiative scheme; if there are plans to increase this; and the measures she will take to help JI employees in the face of the cost-of-living crisis. [27892/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Healy-Rae
822. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will look at creating a childhood and adolescent and young-adult cancer-care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27910/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Healy-Rae
823. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will look at removing the means testing for cancer patients when they apply for an exceptional needs payment/SWA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27912/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Pauline Tully
824. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first- and full-year cost of increasing disability allowance by €12.50 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27920/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Departmental Expenditure
Rose Conway-Walsh
825. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection the total spend on consulting services and on ‘business-as-usual’ outsourcing, as differentiated under the Code of ‘Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016’ for each non-commercial public body under the aegis of her Department for the year 2022. [27970/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Appeals
Michael Healy-Rae
826. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27984/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Cian O'Callaghan
827. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the carer’s allowance payment to include an additional option for the allowance to be paid based on the needs of the person requiring the care and not based on the means of the carers and their spouse, where the applicant falls outside the limit of the means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27992/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Departmental Staff
Brendan Griffin
828. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of employees of her Department who were Class B PRSI contributors between October 2011 and December 2015; the total number of employees who were Class B PRSI contributors who paid a 5% levy on their incomes from October 2011 to December 2015; if she will provide details of the context of the payment of this levy; if any of the total number of overall employees who paid the levy were not former community welfare officers who transferred to her Department from the HSE in October 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28060/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Departmental Staff
Brendan Griffin
829. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will identify which legislation underpins the payment of a 5% levy by Class B PRSI contributors who became employees of her Department following their transfer from the HSE in 2011; if she will point to the relevant sections and/or subsections in the relevant legislation providing for the making of this payment in part of October 2011, November 2011, December 2011 and the years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015; the benefits these specific employees derived from the payment of this levy; the length of time they paid it for; if she will review whether the collection of this levy after the early part of October 2011 was in fact not provided for in law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28061/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Application Forms
Pearse Doherty
830. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the freepost instruction was removed from social welfare child benefit review forms (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28077/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Appeals
Michael Healy-Rae
831. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28088/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Paul Kehoe
832. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection the reasons the May cost-of-living payment was not paid to qualified adults on a contributory pension in their own right; if she will reconsider this, given many qualified adults operate in a financially independent way from their respective spouses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28090/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Willie O'Dea
833. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when illness benefit for the period 17 April 2023 to 7 May 2023 will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28147/23]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Kathleen Funchion
834. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will intervene and review the invalidity pension application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28169/23]