Ní féidir ach ceisteanna agus freagraí a foilsíodh tar éis Iúil 2012 a amharc anseo. Is féidir amharc de réir téarma nó dátaí ar leith ó Mhárta 2016 ar aghaidh do Ranna Rialtais. Foilsítear freagraí scríofa de réir mar a fhaightear iad ó Ranna. Chun ceisteanna parlaiminte a foilsíodh roimh Iúil 2012 a fheiceáil, cuardaigh Díospóireachtaí na Dála.
Ceisteanna agus freagraí le haghaidh Téarma Dála nó Seanaid
Leathanach 142 de 500
Máirt, 13 Meith 2023
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Community Employment Schemes
Brendan Griffin
809. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if clarification will be provided on a matter regarding a CE supervisor scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27559/23]
Máirt, 13 Meith 2023
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Community Welfare Services
Niamh Smyth
810. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the weekly service of community welfare officers visiting towns has not been resumed in Cavan since Covid (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27602/23]
Máirt, 13 Meith 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Peadar Tóibín
811. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications; the number of refusals on first application; the number of appeals; the number of requests for review; the number of successful and unsuccessful appeals and reviews respectively, for each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27617/23]
Máirt, 13 Meith 2023
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Departmental Communications
Holly Cairns
812. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of social media videos posted on each of her Departmental social media accounts, or the social media accounts of public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit, that included closed captioning/subtitling between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023, inclusive; and the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish or another language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27663/23]
Máirt, 13 Meith 2023
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Departmental Policies
Holly Cairns
813. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department, and public bodies and agencies under her remit, have an anti-racism policy which can be accessed by the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27681/23]
Máirt, 13 Meith 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Seán Sherlock
814. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection how many people have benefited from the carer support grant for the years 2016 to 2022 in each year and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [27749/23]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]
Máirt, 13 Meith 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]