614. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients who transferred from invalidity pension to State pension contributory and-or non-contributory for each of the last three years, in tabular form. [73364/26]
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615. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients who transferred from Disability Allowance to State pension contributory and or non contributory for each of the past three years, in tabular form. [73362/26]
111. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person in County Kildare (details supplied) was refused back to education allowance. [69184/26]
4. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering extending the age for domiciliary care allowance from 16 to 18 in budget 2027. [67640/26]
13. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he plans to include a cost-of-disability payment given the high cost of disability faced by disabled people. [67648/26]
19. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the actions his Department is taking to extend access to the heating supplement. [67655/26]
31. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has considered providing any additional social protection payment supports specifically for households who are reliant on home heating oil. [67645/26]
75. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress his Department has made in reducing the waiting times for processing social welfare appeals. [67654/26]
104. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider extending the continuation period for social welfare payments from six weeks to 12 weeks. [67652/26]
549. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider a submission from a representative social protection office (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49762/26]
550. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider the attached submission on the wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49763/26]
37. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the current processing time for appeals of all social welfare payments in 2026. [46170/26]
38. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider combining maternity benefit, paternity benefit, adoptive benefit, and parent’s leave into a single-family scheme providing up to 12 months following the birth or adoption of a child; and whether such a scheme could operate on pay-related basis similar to the pay-related jobseekers’ benefit payment. [46169/26]
48. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has considered the potential impact that a new working age payment may have on secondary benefits such as access to a GP medical card. [46171/26]
55. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on the development of a second-tier child benefit payment; and whether the current plans to replace the child support payment with a new payment will reduce payments for current recipients. [46223/26]
92. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider the implementation of a safe fund for survivors of domestic violence that addresses their immediate financial situation such as covering costs for clothing, accommodation, and other costs faced by those fleeing domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46168/26]
339. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for an additional needs payment for assistance with the cost of a funeral for each of the past three years; the number of applications per county; the number that were successful, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46445/26]
340. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for an additional needs payment for assistance with the cost of a fitting out a new social home for each of the past three years; the number of applications per county; the number that were successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46446/26]
144. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who has paid a D class stamp all their working lives, will qualify for any State payments including the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40473/26]
760. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 commitment to finalise an approach for benchmarking pension payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34901/26]
761. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection whether the annual input to Cabinet which sets out the rate of pension payment calculated using the smoothed earnings benchmark approach will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34902/26]
762. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of the Department's report on the benchmarking and indexing of working-age social protection rates; when it is expected to be finalised and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34903/26]
763. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will include a target for the reduction of poverty among older people in the upcoming successor to the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025, given that no target was set for this in the existing policy, and that 30% of older people living alone, and 15% of all older people, are now at risk of poverty, according to recently published CSO-SILC …
764. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection If an examination of improvements to key ancillary benefits such as the fuel allowance, household benefits package and living alone allowance to support vulnerable groups has occurred as per the Programme for Government; if not, when this examination is to occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34905/26]
576. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the fuel allowance to all those in receipt of the carer's allowance payment, where this is the only qualifying criteria to receive the fuel allowance. [32968/26]