Parliamentary questions

622. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost to recruit and pay an annual salary to a single welfare officer. [25911/25]

623. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost the estimated cost of a €50 payment to all recipients of the fuel allowance. [25912/25]

624. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of part-time, seasonal, casual and short-time workers in receipt of Jobseeker’s benefit. [25913/25]

625. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of a €1 increase per person to the fuel allowance. [25914/25]

626. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of the fuel allowance. [25915/25]

627. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the working family payment. [25916/25]

628. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of a combination of one, some or all of disability allowance, blind pension and invalidity pension payments. [25917/25]

629. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost to increase the age limit for the one family payment to 12 years. [25918/25]

630. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of increasing the carer’s support grant by €50. [25919/25]

631. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first-year and full-year cost of introducing a long-term carer’s pension [25920/25]

632. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first-year and full-year cost of a once-off €50 payment to all recipients of the carer’s support grant, carer’s benefit and carer’s allowance. [25921/25]

633. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first-year and full-year cost of increasing State pension payments by €1. [25923/25]

634. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first-year and full-year cost of equalising rates of jobseeker’s allowance, jobseeker’s benefit and jobseeker’s pay-related benefit for those under the ages of 18 to 24. [25924/25]

635. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of a €1 increase in the child benefit monthly rate. [25925/25]

636. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine the case of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25988/25]

637. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Social Protection whether the long application processing times for social welfare payments to school bus drivers during annual school holiday periods will be streamlined, as there are many cases where drivers are without any income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26035/25]

253. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the number of agencies or quangos established by his Department in each of the past ten years and the cost to the State of funding each one. [24941/25]

254. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting eight months for a decision to be made in respect of his appeal of a rejected application for the working family payment; if he is aware of the undue hardship and distress this causes the appellant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24990/25]

255. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of working family payment applications received; the number of working family payment applications awarded; the number of working family payment applications withdrawn; the average time in weeks from date of application submission to award in the first instance; the number of working family payment applications that we…

256. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of same-sex marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25024/25]

257. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25025/25]

258. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on the report commissioned by his Department on extending the fuel allowance to recipients of the working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25055/25]

259. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has considered implementing an individual means-test for social welfare payments rather than a household means-test, to ensure that people are only assessed on their own income and not that of their household’s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25056/25]

260. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of indexing the child support payment to 45% of the qualified adult payment for children under 12 and 55% for children over 12 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25057/25]

261. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 292 of 10 April 2025 and 1418 of 29 April 2025, without mentioning or outlining “child benefit”, whether all parents or guardians of newly adopted children under 18 are eligible for the new baby grant, regardless of the child’s age on date of placement; if there is a cut-off age whereby ado…