1882. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the back to education grant to all BTEA applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44043/25]
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1883. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the disability allowance income disregard to €200 or €250, respectively, and increasing the upper income cap to €400 or €450, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44044/25]
1884. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the one-parent family payment and JST income disregards to €200 or €250, respectively, and to provide a breakdown of the cost for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44045/25]
1885. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of providing carer’s allowance to all those in receipt of the carer’s support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44047/25]
1886. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of providing carer’s allowance at a full rate to those caring for two or more people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44048/25]
1887. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of allowing those in receipt of the State pension to retain a full-rate carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44049/25]
1891. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseeker’s applications received from educational sector workers temporarily laid off during the summer months in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44089/25]
1892. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures taken by his Department to alleviate delays for educational sector workers applying for a jobseeker’s payment while temporarily laid off during school breaks given the predictable nature of the applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44090/25]
1896. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection to estimate the cost of expanding the fuel allowance to all people on a disability-related social protection payment; and of extending the heating season to 32 weeks. [44337/25]
1897. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated costs of linking the wage subsidy scheme to the national minimum wage; and the estimated costs of restoring the wage subsidy scheme to 70% of the national minimum wage. [44341/25]
1898. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of reconfiguring disability allowance payments such that only the receiving individual’s personal income is assessable, and not their household’s and where “welfare cliffs” in the payment are designed such that no recipient will receive less income in aggregate if they take up work or take a promotion. [44342/25]
618. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will make changes to the current homemakers and home carers scheme given both discriminate against women in terms of age (details supplied); if he is aware that the current regime is causing income poverty for many women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38805/25]
650. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of removing the means-test for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance for all children and young people in State care, including those in foster care. [39262/25]
653. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of removing the 18.5-hour ceiling rule for the carer’s allowance for those who wish to undertake training or education and whose child is in school for more than 18.5-hours. [39265/25]
654. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of removing the weekly earnings limit for the carer’s benefit. [39266/25]
660. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection the proposals or timelines in relation to the removal of the means test for the disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39498/25]
259. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are plans to scrap the means test for foster children being included in the back-to-school clothing and footwear scheme. [38335/25]
265. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Social Protection if the State provides any direct support or assistance in meeting the requirement for continuous supervision under the carer's allowance scheme, particularly in cases where the full burden of care cannot be met by one individual alone; and when he plans to abolish means testing for carer's allowance, as previously committed to in election manifestos. [3…
568. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications received under the humanitarian assistance scheme for stages 1, 2 and 3 following Storm Éowyn; the total number of applications received by his Department; the number of applications processed to date; the number of applications approved and rejected, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37408/25]
584. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of applications received by his Department under the humanitarian assistance scheme in respect of Storm Éowyn; if he will confirm the total value of applications received and the total value of applications approved; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications approved, by county, and the number refused, by county;…
596. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of additional humanitarian assistance payments still awaiting review, decision, and payment; the number of applications that are under review; the number of applications from each County, decided, paid out, under review and rejected, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37672/25]
598. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is an early entry process for the back-to-work enterprise allowance scheme for those people who have completed the required proposal process but fall short of the 234-day jobseeker threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37746/25]
599. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of fish assist applications received by his Department; and the number of these applications that were approved in each year from 2014 to date, in tabular form. [37845/25]
600. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of fish assist applications approved in each county in each year from 2014 to date, in tabular form. [37846/25]
151. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people who received successful HAS 2 award payments for Storm Bert and Storm Éowyn, in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36284/25]