1578. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on whether the information campaigns carried out to date in relation to the auto enrolment pension scheme have been sufficient to ensure widespread knowledge of this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1774/26]
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1579. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding any further campaigns to ensure that there is sufficient knowledge and awareness of the auto enrolment pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1775/26]
1580. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the feedback his Department has received to date from businesses that are partaking in the auto enrolment pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1776/26]
1581. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the feedback his Department has received to date from employees that are partaking in the auto enrolment pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1777/26]
1582. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the date on which a supplementary estimate or supplementary estimates was sought in respect of his Department’s Vote for each of the past ten years, and to the date in 2026; the gross and net amount involved in each case; and the Vote subheads to which each supplementary estimate related. [1802/26]
1583. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the value of expenditure originally allocated in the Estimates to specific programmes or staffing measures that could not be spent as planned within the year for each of the past five years; and whether such underspends were surrendered, carried forward or reallocated to other areas within the Vote. [1825/26]
1584. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Social Protection if assistance can be offered to a person (details supplied) with processing a working family payment claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1835/26]
1585. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps his Department is taking to design and deliver a targeted social welfare payment for families experiencing consistent poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1906/26]
1586. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on work underway to reduce child poverty, including progress against the Government's target to reduce consistent child poverty to 3%; to list the specific measures within Vote 37 that are being prioritised to support low-income families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1907/26]
1587. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department collects data on the uptake of paternity and parent's leave by fathers and other parents, including the latest figures available on the percentage of eligible fathers availing of these entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1908/26]
1588. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection the interactions between targeted poverty payments and supports for families such as working family payment, child support payment and family leave benefits; the modelling undertaken of combined impacts on disposable income for families with children in or at risk of poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1911/26]
1589. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding any product or service purchased from Israel or the Occupied Territories by his Department in 2025, broken down by description and amount paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1988/26]
1590. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer by a court or tribunal, the legal costs of any current or concluded litigation taken by an employee or former employee against that Department or body, in each of the past five years; if so, to provide details …
1591. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which his Department, or a body under its aegis, may fund the legal costs of an employee or former employee in litigation where that employee is in dispute with, or taking proceedings against, the same body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2046/26]
1592. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection whether the funding of employee legal costs in disputes against his Department, or a body under its aegis, is standard practice; if not, the circumstances in which such funding may be permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2064/26]
1593. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the guidance, codes, circulars or directions that govern the payment of legal costs by his Department, and bodies under its aegis, in employment-related disputes, including any requirements under the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies or Departmental sanction arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [208…
1594. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection whether the funding of employee legal costs in litigation against the employing body could give rise to governance, accountability, or value for money concerns; whether his Department has issued any guidance in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2100/26]
1595. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department has reviewed, or intends to review, the practice of Departments, and bodies under their aegis, funding legal costs in employment disputes involving those same bodies; and if so, the outcome or timeline for such a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2118/26]
1596. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection whether arrangements to fund legal costs in employment disputes involving his Department, or bodies under its aegis, require the prior approval of his Department or the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2136/26]
1597. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection with regard to his responsibility for the General Register Office, when the digitisation of death registrations from 1864-1871 will be completed and made available online. [2174/26]
1598. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has been made aware of the challenges schools with fewer than 75 pupils face in securing school lunch providers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2202/26]
1599. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department uses artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and if so, to outline which projects or units of the Department are affected. [2254/26]
1600. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether any agencies or other bodies under his remit are using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and if so, to outline which projects or units of the organisation are affected. [2272/26]
1601. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a list of the top ten capital or programme projects delivered by his Department or its agencies over the past three years which were completed on time and within the originally approved budget; the project name, location, delivery timeframe, original approved budget, final outturn cost and delivery body, for each project; and if he will …
1602. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection to detail the annual spend on external consultants by his Department and its agencies in each of the past three years; the number of consultancy contracts, the largest individual consultancy engagements by value, and whether internal capacity-building or cost-benefit assessments were undertaken prior to engaging external consultants; and if he will…