Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]