Parliamentary questions

1879. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of paying child benefit in the month of birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44040/25]

1880. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of providing job seeker's payments to under-25s at the same adult rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44041/25]

1881. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s allowance income disregard to €750 single, and €1,500 for a couple; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44042/25]

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]

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]

1888. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of a €10 increase in the household benefits package for gas and electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44051/25]

1889. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to putting in place a support to subsidise the cost of bereavement counselling for those who have lost a close family member; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44062/25]

1890. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection the average processing time for educational sector workers who apply for a jobseeker’s payment while temporarily laid off during the summer months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44088/25]

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]

1893. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the new pay-related benefit for a person out of work (details supplied) does not account for dependants; the reason a single person can get the same as a family of four; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44237/25]

1894. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of fuel allowance applications rejected in Cork to date in 2025. [44314/25]

1895. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the fuel allowance. [44325/25]

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. [4…

1899. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to improve the local community employment schemes in order to make them more attractive to engage social welfare recipients. [44393/25]

1900. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid out as part of the Ukrainian response for non-accommodation costs, including car repairs and other items, under the discretionary needs payment; if the details can be outlined in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44407/25]

1901. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update in respect of fulfilling the Government’s commitment to SDG1 (ending poverty, including child poverty, by 2030); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44529/25]

389. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports available from his Department to help people with disabilities into employment, and to sustain employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40620/25]

390. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding allocated to each county as part of the training support grant in each of the years 2014 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40625/25]