555. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will publish a comparative analysis of income supports for disabled households in 2025 versus 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69589/25]
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556. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps he will take to ensure that disabled households are not disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion as a result of Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69590/25]
557. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department will confirm the pension contributions made by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69611/25]
558. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection if individuals have been signed up to a less valuable scheme than the auto-enrolment pension scheme, the measures that will be included in the regulations to protect them; and if the regulations will be retrospective. [69675/25]
559. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider providing funding directly to an organisation (details supplied). [69696/25]
560. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection in relation to pension auto-enrolment, the reason employees are being automatically enrolled before the public has full clarity on fees, risks, oversight, and long-term rules. [69723/25]
561. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection in relation to pension auto-enrolment, how workers can permanently opt out. [69724/25]
562. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection in relation to pension auto-enrolment, the guarantees in place that contribution rates will not rise again. [69725/25]
563. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection in relation to pension auto-enrolment, the reason employers are being threatened with fines and prosecution before full guidance is published. [69726/25]
564. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection in relation to pension auto-enrolment, the rationale as to why employees must accept a set contribution rate and a Government-assigned fund manager. [69727/25]
565. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection in relation to pension auto-enrolment, the rationale as to why savings remain in the fund even if someone opts out, stops contributing, or moves abroad. [69728/25]
566. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has concerns about aspects of the tendering process (details supplied) for the provision of free school meals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69754/25]
567. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps to be taken to register a birth (details supplied) [69790/25]
568. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if, in view of their circumstances, arrears will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70006/25]
569. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Social Protection if a condition (details supplied) would qualify a person for a blind pension. [70053/25]
570. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason self-employed workers who pay PRSI, when they get sick, have no access to income supports, despite working and paying taxes; if this anomaly will be examined; if illness benefit will be extended to the self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70098/25]
571. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason people who are means tested for carer’s allowance are then means tested for free legal aid when applying to the Circuit Court for the decision making representative order. [70121/25]
572. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance payment application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70131/25]
573. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding any actions he is taking to reduce energy poverty for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70140/25]
574. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on a matter (details supplied). [70205/25]
575. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider changing the rules so that a person in receipt of death benefit is entitled to the living alone allowance upon reaching the age of 66. [70229/25]
576. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection the average time over the past six years it has taken to produce a stamped final bill in his Department from the time when his Department has received government approval for the general scheme and the heads of a bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70280/25]
577. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to carers allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70293/25]
578. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a schedule of all funding and grant aid provided by heading and subhead to Kildare, Wicklow and Meath local authorities in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the amount returned and or not expended over the same period. [70316/25]
579. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection the timeline for decisions on a cost of disability payment within the expenditure framework for 2026 and 2027. [70985/25]