Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Pension Provisions

Brendan Griffin

1139. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the provision of pensions or other beneficial payments for current and former community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40431/21]

Pension Provisions

Brendan Griffin

1140. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the old age pension in Budget 2022 in view of rising costs of living for pensioners and the pressures that these costs are putting pensioners under; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40436/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael McNamara

1141. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons awaiting determination of their application for the jobseeker’s allowance in County Clare; the current wait time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40473/21]

Public Services Card

Duncan Smith

1142. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) to receive their PPSN; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40482/21]

Pension Provisions

Niamh Smyth

1143. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress on the provision of pensions for community employment scheme supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40492/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Niamh Smyth

1144. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to change the system in which there is a euro per euro deduction in relation to payments of jobseeker’s allowance for those in self-employment outside of farming and fishing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40493/21]

Pensions Reform

Niamh Smyth

1145. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the Total Contributions Approach 2012 review for those effected by the 2012 rate band changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40521/21]

Social Welfare Code

Niamh Smyth

1146. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of measures to address anomalies in the homemaker’s scheme for those who provided the majority of their caring prior to 1994; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40522/21]

Gender Recognition

Jennifer Whitmore

1147. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Social Protection when legislation will be introduced to enable 16 and 17 year olds obtain a gender recognition certificate with parental approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40573/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Steven Matthews

1148. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a potential conflict between two Government supports, the live performance support scheme and the pandemic unemployment payment, by which if a person in the live entertainment sector gets short-term employment through the live performance support scheme it may force them permanently off the pandemic unemployment payment by going above the €960 allowable income threshold; her views on whether this will act as a disincentive to take up short-term employment opportunities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40599/21]

Departmental Funding

Johnny Guirke

1149. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Social Protection the last occasion on which a Department-wide review of all funding within her Department took place; the frequency of such reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40643/21]

Live Register

Brendan Griffin

1150. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the latest live register figures for County Kerry; the percentage change in the county since the Covid-19 peak; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40675/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1151. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is fair to cut from September 2021 onwards the only financial support for workers in the music and entertainment sector who remain without a roadmap, date or plan for getting back to work and whose work is prohibited because of Government restrictions; and if she will reconsider reducing their only source of income the pandemic unemployment payment by €100 per person in the lead up to Christmas. [40713/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1152. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fairness and legality of her plans to transition workers in the music and entertainment industry from September 2021 from being pandemic unemployment payment recipients to jobseeker’s, despite them having jobs already that they are not allowed to do due to Government restrictions; if these workers will be targeted by job activation schemes once jobseeker's; if this change in status will mean music and entertainment workers will be required to seek employment outside of that sector and leave those jobs in order to receive basic income supports; and the research that has been conducted into the devastating harm this move could have on Ireland’s music and entertainment sector in the medium and long- term. [40714/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1153. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if an exemption will be made to the planned pandemic unemployment payment cuts for sectors such as the music and entertainment sector that remain under restrictions to the point that their workers cannot work. [40715/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1154. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if workers in the music and entertainment sector fortunate enough to receive a few days' work through the live performance support scheme will be expected or required to give up their only guaranteed support of the pandemic unemployment payment if the funds they receive through the scheme results in them earning more than the allowed €960 over an eight week period. [40717/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1155. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which her Department requires workers who receive funding under the live performance support scheme to come off the pandemic unemployment payment if the scheme brings them above the threshold of €960 over an eight week period, despite other Government supports such as the small business assistance scheme for Covid-19, music and entertainment business assistance scheme and Covid recovery support scheme not affecting a person’s eligibility for the pandemic unemployment payment; if it is not the longstanding Government practice to view business expenses over an annual period rather than in eight week period instalments; and her views on whether self-employed workers in the music and entertainment sector in particular are unfairly disadvantaged and discouraged from accepting live performance support scheme funding due to this eight week rule. [40719/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Niamh Smyth

1156. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has plans to extend the domestic violence emergency rent supplement scheme into 2022 and onwards in view of rising figures in domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40734/21]

Youth Unemployment

Niamh Smyth

1157. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the present youth unemployment rates; the plans in place to tackle youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40735/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Mattie McGrath

1158. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will address a series of matters in relation to Covid-19 supports (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40743/21]

Charitable and Voluntary Organisations

Seán Crowe

1159. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department and the HSE will provide funding to allow the charities that provide two soup runs in Dublin to remain in operation if the HSE close down on the foot of a HSE environmental health section report. [40766/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Duncan Smith

1160. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of broadening entitlement to the household benefits package to households in which a civil or public service occupational pensioner aged 66 to 69 inclusive is not in receipt of a qualifying payment or is not an excepted person for the purposes of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40816/21]

Birth Certificates

John Brady

1161. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a copy of a birth certificate for a person (details supplied); and if arrangements will be made for the birth certificate to be issued urgently to enable the person to avail of emergency housing support. [40911/21]

Birth Certificates

Jennifer Whitmore

1162. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to ongoing delays in the issuing of birth certificates for children born in 2021; the reason for the delay in issuing birth certificates; the current waiting time for birth certificates to be issued; if families can still access PPS numbers and child benefit payments while waiting for birth certificates; the efforts being undertaken to address the delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40921/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Richard Boyd Barrett

1163. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on each pandemic unemployment payment band. [41233/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Richard Boyd Barrett

1164. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of reinstating the pandemic unemployment to €350 per week. [41234/21]

Social Welfare Rates

Richard Boyd Barrett

1165. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of raising the payment on headline social welfare rates to €350 per week. [41235/21]

Social Welfare Rates

Richard Boyd Barrett

1166. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of increasing all social welfare payments by €50 per week. [41236/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1167. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of a one-off social welfare bonus of €1,000 for all essential workers who worked through the Covid-19 pandemic including but not limited to health, food retail, food production workers and transport workers. [41237/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1168. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid out annually in rent allowance in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the projected amount for the remainder of 2020 and 2021. [41240/21]

State Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

1169. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of ensuring the State contributory and non-contributory pensions are available to all those that reach 65 years of age. [41241/21]

State Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

1170. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of reinstating the transitionary pension. [41242/21]

State Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

1171. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to introduce a universal State pension of €350 weekly and reduce the pension age to 65 years of age. [41243/21]

Departmental Budgets

Richard Boyd Barrett

1172. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if the moneys saved following the transfer of recipients of rent allowance to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS have then been transferred to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; the organisation responsible for the latter payments; and if so, the amount in each of the year since the commencement of the payments. [41244/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1173. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of reinstating a concurrent payment of half-rate illness benefit and jobseeker’s benefit in addition to one parent family payment and widow’s and widower’s pensions. [41245/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1174. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to increase child benefit in respect of children over 12 years of age by €30. [41246/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1175. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of reversing cuts to the back to education allowance. [41247/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1176. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to increase social welfare payments to 2009 levels. [41248/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1177. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of measures (details supplied). [41249/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1178. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of restoring the respite grant to its highest historical level. [41250/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Richard Boyd Barrett

1179. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of the pandemic unemployment payment at current levels from now until the end of 2022. [41251/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Richard Boyd Barrett

1180. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of paying all persons in receipt of pandemic unemployment payment a rate of €350 until the end of 2022. [41252/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1181. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing all social welfare payments to €300 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41253/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

1182. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of granting a €1,000 bonus to all recipients of the carer's allowance. [41254/21]

Living Wage

Richard Boyd Barrett

1183. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of moving all social welfare claimants including pensioners to a living wage. [41255/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1184. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason school secretaries are awaiting payment three-weeks after the closure of primary schools; the reason for the delay; and if she will ensure school secretaries that they will receive their full and due payment during the weeks that schools are closed for summer holidays in 2021. [41324/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Gary Gannon

1185. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons under the age of 25 years living in homeless accommodation will be awarded the full independent jobseeker’s allowance rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41395/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Gary Gannon

1186. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to persons under the age of 25 years in homeless accommodation (details supplied) not being awarded the full independent jobseeker’s allowance despite paying their own service charges, meals, shopping, laundry and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41396/21]

Employment Support Services

Cormac Devlin

1187. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will arrange a meeting with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) to discuss its proposal for a stakeholders forum prior to any decision on any new employment service contract being signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41421/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Seán Sherlock

1188. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to technical glitches occurring for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment who were asked to fill out forms to confirm eligibility and remain on the payment by 20 July 2021. [41426/21]

Social Welfare Rates

Rose Conway-Walsh

260. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection the increase seen or expected in the back to school allowance as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39027/21]

Social Insurance

Duncan Smith

261. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the social insurance contribution record of a person (details supplied) in Ireland; if such contributions can be taken into account in determining pension entitlements in the United Kingdom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38747/21]

Social Welfare Code

Róisín Shortall

262. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the inequitable treatment of persons on invalidity pension that wish to move on to partial capacity benefit and to establish themselves as self-employed (details supplied); if these significant disincentives to taking up employment will be examined and addressed; and if the feasibility of applying similar rules to invalidity pension and partial capacity recipients as those that apply to persons on disability allowance will be examined. [38792/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

263. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 878 of 15 June 2021, when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on their carer’s allowance. [38813/21]

Social Welfare Code

Róisín Shortall

264. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection the situation for undocumented workers in the hospitality, retail and service sector who have been in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment until now who may be called in for intermittent precarious days and hours of work and who may not be entitled to a jobseeker’s payment thereafter if they don’t receive ongoing days or hours employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38835/21]

Pensions Reform

Joe Flaherty

265. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the publishing of the report by the Commission on Pensions; and when she plans to publish the report of the Commission (details supplied). [38846/21]

Departmental Data

Joe Flaherty

266. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff by location and function in each office of her Department nationally by location; if the property is State owned or leased; and the detail of these leases in the case of those properties on a lease in terms of cost, term and next break date. [38848/21]

Widow's Pension

Holly Cairns

267. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner (contributory) pension will be adjusted to make long-term partners eligible to receive the payment. [38872/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Patricia Ryan

268. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will disregard maintenance payments in the assessment of the working family payment in circumstances in which the court ordered payer is not making payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38897/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Patricia Ryan

269. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons awaiting determination of their application for a domiciliary care allowance; the current wait time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38898/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Patricia Ryan

270. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons awaiting determination of their application for the children’s allowance; the current wait time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38899/21]

Pension Provisions

Duncan Smith

271. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will furnish a detailed explanation for the significant difference in content of information in relation to the correspondence furnished to a person (details supplied) on 3 September 2020 and 1 July 2021, pertaining to their entitlement to a State pension (contributory); the reason for the difference in the treatment of their reckonable credited contributions for 2005 and 2006 in July 2021 when compared to record and treatment thereof furnished in September 2020; if same will now be reviewed further; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38915/21]

Departmental Communications

Róisín Shortall

272. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of scam calls reported to her Department in view of the surge in fraudulent calls claiming to be from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39037/21]

Social Welfare Rates

Rose Conway-Walsh

273. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection the increase seen or expected in the back to school allowance as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39054/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Bernard Durkan

274. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection when a one parent family allowance will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32814/21]

Enterprise Support Services

Pauline Tully

220. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications that have been received for the enterprise support grant from businesses in County Cavan; the number that have been successful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38642/21]

Social Welfare Appeals

Bernard Durkan

221. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for carer’s allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38137/21]

Legislative Measures

Claire Kerrane

222. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection when section 14 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38184/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Claire Kerrane

223. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the number and value of illness benefit overpayment recouped in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [38185/21]

National Broadband Plan

Seán Sherlock

224. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the engagement she or the agencies under her remit has had with the national broadband plan in the past two months. [38209/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Mary Lou McDonald

225. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently reinstate payment of child benefit for the summer months to parents and guardians of school going 16 to 18 year olds that are unable to provide written confirmation required from her Department as schools are now closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38218/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Claire Kerrane

226. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the requirement to be in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance for at least 15 months in order to qualify for the part-time job incentive scheme; the estimated number of additional recipients that would qualify for such if this change was introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38219/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Claire Kerrane

227. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if the part-time job incentive scheme is open to jobseekers aged 18 to 25; if she will advise on the decision to set the minimum weekly jobseeker’s allowance rate for the scheme at a rate which locks many young persons out of accessing this scheme in consideration of the scheme requirement for participants to be in receipt of a minimum weekly jobseeker’s allowance rate of €128.60 and the standard rate of €112.70 for young persons on jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38224/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Claire Kerrane

228. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the minimum weekly rate requirement for the part-time job incentive scheme to extend eligibility to include all jobseekers aged 18 to 25; the estimated number of additional recipients that would qualify for such if this change was enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38225/21]

Public Services Card

Pádraig O'Sullivan

229. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures being taken to tackle the backlog of appointment requests for public services cards in Cork city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38229/21]

Departmental Correspondence

Thomas Pringle

230. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are guidelines, written procedures or protocols or key performance indicators for acknowledgement of correspondence received and response to correspondence received, respectively by category of correspondence (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38249/21]

Social Welfare Offices

Catherine Murphy

231. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the staffing levels at each INTREO public offices operated by her Department in County Kildare in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by location in tabular form. [38263/21]

Employment Support Services

Seán Sherlock

232. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection if a process has been established in writing to establish the learnings from the RFT 1 on local employment services; the timeline for same; the persons and bodies that will be involved; and if stakeholder voices will be included. [38326/21]

Employment Support Services

Catherine Murphy

233. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of counties that do not have a local employment service. [38339/21]

Employment Support Services

Catherine Murphy

234. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the engagements she has had with Seetec and or Turas Nua and other similar service providers in respect of expanding their role in the State in respect of employment activation schemes specifically in the area of local employment services and the new pathways to work strategy. [38340/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Claire Kerrane

235. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if allowances will be made for self-employed preschool teachers to be eligible for jobseeker’s benefit or allowance during non-term time in recognition of the provision made for other school staff who are not employed by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38349/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Bruton

236. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn the fact that actors can get very sporadic access to work which would force them to sign off PUP but which would not represent a sustainable opportunity to re-establish their self-employed income on a medium term basis; and if a special category under PUP or some other mechanism could be found to allow such persons avail of income support after the opportunity has been exhausted. [38367/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Paul Kehoe

237. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the working family payment for a person (details supplied); when the payment will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38369/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Niamh Smyth

238. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances under which a person can access rent supplement and or HAP when they are not on a local authority housing list. [38385/21]

State Pensions

Brendan Griffin

239. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a pro-rata State pension (contributory) application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38426/21]

State Pensions

Brendan Griffin

240. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a pro-rata widow’s contributory pension application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38428/21]

Citizens Information Services

Matt Carthy

241. 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 from 30% to 40%, 50%, 60% and 70%, respectively. [38453/21]

Departmental Strategies

Holly Cairns

242. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the way her Department and public bodies and agencies under her remit are implementing Action 16 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021 (details supplied). [38499/21]

Departmental Strategies

Holly Cairns

243. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the way her Department and public bodies and agencies under her remit are implementing Action 32 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021 (details supplied). [38516/21]

Departmental Data

Aindrias Moynihan

244. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Social Protection the current length of time it takes to process and approve a range of payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38594/21]

Citizens Information Services

Pauline Tully

245. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the budget allocation of the Citizens' Information Board in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38693/21]

Departmental Data

Gary Gannon

246. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate child benefit payments to continue to be paid to families with children between the ages of 16-18 years over the summer months until school reopens given this practice was able to be facilitated in 2020 and in view of the continued extreme financial burden placed on families due to Covid-19; if this practice will be repeated in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38698/21]

Departmental Data

Gary Gannon

247. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of child benefit payments that were not paid 6 July 2021 due to children being over the age of 16 years within the summer months before school reopens.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38699/21]

Departmental Data

Gary Gannon

248. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of continuing child benefit to children who are over the age of 18 years and in post-primary school. [38700/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Emer Higgins

434. Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the issue of family carers who are in receipt of the lowest level of the pandemic unemployment payment who will cease to receive the payment from 7 September 2021 and will be unable to apply for jobseeker's allowance despite not having returned to their part-time work yet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37161/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Darren O'Rourke

435. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection if taxi drivers are to be allowed stay on the pandemic unemployment payment until February 2022; the way this will work in practice; if there will be a reduction in payments or some transition to a jobseeker’s payment; the way this will work given the fact that taxi drivers are self-employed and not seeking a job; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37169/21]

Birth Certificates

Eoin Ó Broin

436. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of a birth certificate application by a person (details supplied); and if the certificate will be issued urgently to enable the person to apply for a passport for the purposes of travel. [37204/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

John Lahart

437. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Social Protection the entitlements that are available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37272/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

John McGuinness

438. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [37278/21]

Departmental Reviews

Holly Cairns

439. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of the social impact assessments carried out by her Department and public bodies and agencies under her remit since 1 January 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37300/21]