46. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering the introduction of a universal cost of disability payment that is not means-tested and not taxed, to help people with disabilities pay for additional costs associated with living with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46364/26]
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1204. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection to confirm if a “qualified child increase” is taken into account in means tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42766/26]
30. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering reintroducing cost-of-living payments like those in previous Budgets as a matter of emergency to help people with cost of living increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31268/26]
38. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is planning to introduce any emergency measures to help people with disabilities and their carers to cope with increasing costs of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31267/26]
354. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the length of time a person can avail of carer's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31567/26]
355. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if savings are taken into account in the means test for disability allowance; if so, the amount allowed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31568/26]
356. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports available to persons who are self-employed and become ill and unable to work but do not have the required stamps for illness benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31569/26]
1850. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department will investigate a disability allowance claim dating back some years for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24019/26]
1139. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will recognise long-Covid as an occupational illness for healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18289/26]
1187. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will increase the supports for those in need of hearing aids in line with increased cost of those aids (details supplied). [19429/26]
170. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection to intervene to ensure that no individuals are penalised as a result of a partner being granted the basic income for the artists (details supplied) for instance by causing a disqualification for disability allowance [15372/26]
208. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he is aware of a situation wherein an award of the basic income for artists may result in a household losing eligibility for disability allowance, putting them at risk of poverty; and for details of any steps he will take to address this. [12974/26]
761. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10162/26]
724. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department or any body under its remit has any contracts with an organisation (details supplied); or has contracted work from that organisation within the past two years. [7937/26]
725. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department or any body under its remit has any contracts with an organisation (details supplied); or has contracted work from that organisation within the past two years. [7955/26]
98. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the next steps a school (details supplied) should take to access the hot school meals scheme, once it has agreed contractors and suppliers. [6746/26]
694. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if his officials have planned for inactive My Future Fund accounts exceeding the number of active accounts; his views on whether the administrative costs associated with such inactive accounts will be absorbed by the flat fee applied only to active accounts, given that such costs are not dependent on fund size and will not be charged directly t…
695. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans for the treatment of My Future Fund accounts held by people who have left Ireland never to return; if he intends to follow the Australian approach of allowing such departing members to encash their fund pots upon leaving the State so as to mitigate the long-term administrative burden of maintaining inactive accounts; and if he will ma…
10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of the maximum rent supplement payment; and whether he will review these maximum limits. [2903/26]
24. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the rules and regulations governing the approval of rent supplement payments; and his plans to increase the payment. [2902/26]
78. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to increase the living alone allowance. [2901/26]
90. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will streamline approval of exceptional needs payments for core household goods, such as flooring and basic furniture, in order to ensure that tenants are not paying two rents simultaneously while awaiting floors or other basic furniture in a new tenancy. [2891/26]
94. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will streamline approval of exceptional needs payments for core household goods, such as flooring and basic furniture, in order to ensure that social housing allocations are not delayed by lack of floors or other basic furniture in the allocated unit. [2890/26]
409. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering any additional legislative measures to end enforced deprivation and poverty of disabled people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72864/25]
410. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering any emergency measures to help people with disabilities and their families to deal with increasing cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72863/25]