260. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for a Public Services Card processed at each Intreo centre, branch office and dedicated PPSN and PSC centre in each of the years 2024, 2025 and in the period 1 January 2026 to 1 July 2026, in tabular form. [66050/26]
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261. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person is eligible for the widows pension when there is a protection order in place at the time of the death of their spouse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66109/26]
262. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to allow for the purchase of AVCs or similar schemes as part of the auto enrolment pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66099/26]
263. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons aged between 60 and 65 years-of-age who are in receipt of full carer’s allowance, by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66098/26]
264. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of a new online tool (details supplied) to assist people with income supports and information on same; if he could point to any available funding to maintain such an essential service, which is rapidly growing in it use to ensure it remains available to the public. [66129/26]
265. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the financial supports currently available to assist low-income households with healthcare-related access costs, including travel and accommodation expenses associated with attending medical appointments or receiving treatment; if she will provide details of any eligibility criteria and application processes for such supports; if co…
266. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection to confirm the current status of a carer’s allowance application for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be reached; and whether serious consideration will be given to the application due to the circumstances involved. [66201/26]
267. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection to confirm the current status of a carer’s allowance application for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be reached; and whether serious consideration will be given to the application due to the circumstances involved. [66199/26]
268. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in Offaly consisting of a person aged over 70 who are entitled to claim the Household Benefits Package; the number currently receiving the payment; and the number not in receipt of the payment, in tabular form. [66245/26]
269. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in County Offaly that have become eligible for fuel allowance in 2026 as a result of the extension of eligibility to recipients of the working family payment; the total value of these fuel allowance payments made to date in 2026; and the projected full-year value of these payments in County Offaly, in tabular form. [66282/26…
270. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of fuel allowance recipients in County Offaly in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by the primary qualifying payment or scheme through which eligibility was established, in tabular form. [66280/26]
271. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in County Offaly that received fuel allowance under the national fuel scheme in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and the total value of payments made to recipients in County Offaly, by year, in tabular form. [66278/26]
757. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider increasing the prices paid to suppliers of school meals. [64388/26]
758. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider increasing prices paid to suppliers of school meals. [64383/26]
759. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a reduction in the weekly overpayment of the pandemic payment will be allowed for a person (details supplied). [64464/26]
760. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of illness benefit claimants deemed unfit for work due to chronic migraine, based on the latest data available to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64606/26]
761. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the Department is considering measures in Budget 2027 to address the impact of rising living costs on vulnerable households, including increases to core social welfare rates, enhanced supports for children, people with disabilities and one-parent families, improvements to the fuel allowance scheme, and other measures advocated b…
762. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); the reason the disability benefit application was refused on three separate occasions despite full medical evidence being submitted; if he will provide an update on the partial capacity benefit application now submitted. [64788/26]
763. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of any contracts in place between his Department and agencies under his remit with a company (details supplied) known to have provided material support to the IDF in Gaza, which the Government considers to be guilty of genocide, since 2023. [64855/26]
764. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department will confirm the pension (non contributory) amount and not the pension (contributory) amount a person will receive if the person reaches 66 years-of-age on 1 January 2036 with no stamps, having not worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64734/26]
765. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department will provide details of the pension for a person who commences work as a nurse in Ireland at 36 years-of-age in 2006 and retires on 1 January 2036 at 66 years-of-age with 30 years of stamps (1,560 in total); the amount their COAP will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64733/26]
766. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the publication of the successor Pathways to Work Strategy, which was anticipated early this year; the reason for the delay in its launch; and the timeline for its publication. [64948/26]
767. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1545 of 13 January 2026, the approximate financial cost to the State of removing the means test for carers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64993/26]
768. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the phasing out of the carers allowance means test as committed to in the Programme for Government; if there is a timeline for this commitment to be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64991/26]
769. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he plans to amend the means-assessment system as it applied to savers in Budget 2027, in line with the recommendations contained in the 2024 report of the Social Welfare Oireachtas Sub-Committee, and further in line with the commitment in the Programme for Government to give effect to those recommendations. [65026/26]