Parliamentary questions

183. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide the list of capital projects, by his Department or bodies under its aegis, which had contracts valued in excess of €5 million and which ran over cost in 2023, along with a description of the contract, the initial price and final price provided, in tabular form. [30829/25]

184. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare payments that are collected once every seven or eight weeks in south Tipperary; if there is a large number of Ukrainians collecting their payments once every seven to eight weeks; the investigations carried out where a payment is collected infrequently, that is, once every number of weeks; his views on…

185. Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal (details supplied). [30884/25]

186. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the analysis undertaken into the distributional impact of the new jobseeker’s pay-related benefit ahead of its adoption; and the number of people expected to receive lower payments under the jobseeker’s pay-related benefit than they would have received under jobseeker’s benefit. [30895/25]

187. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will consider adapting the income assessment period for jobseeker’s pay-related benefit to reflect that employees may be placed on reduced working hours as they approach redundancy, in which case their income will be assessed as lower than they typically earned over the course of their careers for the purposes of …

188. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Social Protection the social welfare payments open to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31049/25]

189. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection is he is concerned that recent policy changes outlined in correspondence (details supplied) will impact on projects that depend on community employment, CE, participants to deliver services and supports for communities; if he plans to reduce down the time on which recipients of certain payments must be in receipt of such payments before…

190. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of medical assessors employed by his Department; if he can identify the average number of professional-opinion referrals received; the average time it takes a medical assessor to carry out a professional opinion; the average number of professional opinions completed in a day; and if he will make a statement on the matt…

191. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of medical assessors employed by his Department; the number of professional opinion referrals on average that are received; the average time it takes a medical assessor to carry out a professional opinion; the average number of professional opinions completed in a day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31…

192. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Social Protection if a review will be carried out in relation to the decision not to award the carer’s support grant to a person (details supplied). [31096/25]

193. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the occasions since 2000 that the weekly means limit for the increase for qualified adult allowance for recipients of the State pension was amended, including the date on which the current means threshold of €100 was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31126/25]

194. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection if he intends to review the current weekly means limit for the increase for qualified adult allowance for recipients of the State pension with a view to increasing the current means limit of €100; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31127/25]

195. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if kinship carers are eligible for the back to school allowance. [31180/25]

196. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending child benefit to families in the international protection process. [31181/25]

197. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost and feasibility of setting up a new departmental team to address child poverty. [31182/25]

198. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost to increase working age social welfare payments by €1. [31183/25]

199. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of increasing disability allowance, invalidity pension and blind pension by €1. [31184/25]

200. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of increasing the qualified child increase for over-12s by €1. [31185/25]

201. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of increasing the qualified child increase for under-12s by €1. [31186/25]

202. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of restoring the right to retire at 65 and reintroducing the State pension. [31187/25]

203. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of introducing a long term carer’s pension. [31188/25]

204. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of a €1 increase to the household benefits gas or electricity payment. [31189/25]

205. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of expanding the free travel scheme to include those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance. [31198/25]

206. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of pension provision for foster carers and kinship carers; figures to be given separately. [31200/25]

207. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending the guardian payment to cover children over the age of 12. [31201/25]