Questions

359. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider expanding the eligibility criteria for domiciliary care allowance to include families with children who have severe food allergies, to help meet the financial costs associated with their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13222/25]

1004. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11070/25]

1009. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine a case affecting carers, allowance entitlements for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11185/25]

1016. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Social Protection when he plans to make the changes to the carer’s allowance means test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11429/25]

1017. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection if the decision to refuse disability support to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11458/25]

1023. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection the social welfare payments a person (details supplied) is entitled to. [11564/25]

1029. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person in receipt of the carer’s allowance, and who has passed the means test for the fuel allowance, is assessed for the fuel allowance in their own right or does everyone in the household need to qualify in order for the applicant to be successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11644/25]

1035. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Social Protection the progress being made on abolishing the means test for carers. [11755/25]

1053. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection whether a person needs to be in receipt of jobseekers allowance for three months to qualify for the training support grant; if so, the reason this is not stated on the Government website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12090/25]

1062. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update for a person (details supplied) on their carer’s allowance application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12278/25]

1065. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for carers will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12342/25]

1067. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Social Protection to review the decision not to award the household benefits package to (details supplied). [12363/25]

1068. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in receipt of carer's allowance a qualifying payment for fuel allowance, had their fuel allowance application refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12523/25]

1070. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of reviews carried out on carer’s allowance over the last five years, and the number per year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12599/25]

1071. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the criteria for selecting a carer’s allowance recipient for review; if there a limit on the number of times a person can be selected for review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12600/25]

1072. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if it is correct that his Department is including a total household income review in current reviews that are being received by carer’s allowance recipients; the reason for including this request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12601/25]

1073. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer’s allowance in the name of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed immediately and approved. [12602/25]

118. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update and timeline for the removal of the means test for carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9860/25]

119. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider extending the domiciliary care allowance eligibility criteria from 16 years of age to 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9953/25]

94. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on the programme for Government's commitment to significantly increase the income disregards for carer’s allowance in each budget, with a view to phasing out the means test during the lifetime of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8319/25]

99. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the plans he has in place to expand the eligibility criteria for the free travel pass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8316/25]

106. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider front-loading the promised removal of the means test for carers in order that the means test is entirely abolished in Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8264/25]

107. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for the carer’s allowance will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8605/25]

113. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection when the carer's allowance means-test will be scrapped. [6763/25]

127. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for carer's allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8014/25]