Parliamentary questions

398. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will confirm whether Class S PRSI contributions have been included in the calculation of a constituent’s State contributory pension (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4012/25]

399. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Social Protection to consider allowing PRSI class D contributions to be reckonable for invalidity pension purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4027/25]

400. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Social Protection to consider the extension of the treatment benefit scheme care from community audiologists to include HSE medical card holders. [4037/25]

401. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection to publish the ministerial brief he received on commencing his role; and when and by what means it will be published. [4099/25]

402. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4193/25]

403. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the fines his Department or agencies under the aegis of his Department are paying to the EU for breaches of EU guidance, requirements, regulations, directives or laws. [4212/25]

404. Deputy Michael Cahill 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. [4216/25]

405. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the application for domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4218/25]

406. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on t…

407. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason his Department seeks to amend the remote/hybrid working arrangements for staff; the evidence that the proposed changes will lead to improved productivity; the source of such evidence; if he intends to revise this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4277/25]

408. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision on a carer’s allowance appeal for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4285/25]

409. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Social Protection the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General of his Department; whether this scale has changed in the past year; whether there are proposals to change this scale in the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4325/25]

410. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the advertisement spent of his Department, by national media outlet and local newspaper outlet in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [4350/25]

411. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a working family payment application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4354/25]

412. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection when the Bereaved Partner's Pension Bill 2024 will be enacted. [4397/25]

413. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a schedule of expenditure relating to IT external service provision in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, including the company name and amount expended with them, in tabular form. [4480/25]

414. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the exact title of each Minister of State in his Department; to outline their delegated functions and attributable budget heading for each of these functions; the timeframe when such delegated functions will be formally notified to the Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4615/25]

415. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4705/25]

416. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the recommendation of the Government of Ireland’s Periodic Review of the Citizens Information Board (May 2022) (details supplied); when the post-implementation review will take place; who will be consulted in its course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4709/25]

417. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will confirm that the express rationale for restructuring the corporate governance of Citizens Information Services, a process that involved doing away with the County Tipperary Citizens Information Service, along with all the other countywide and areawide services, included “to better serve the citizen”, to improve “the deliver…

418. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test is scheduled to be scrapped for the carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4718/25]

419. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are any plans to ease the criteria for someone who is unemployed, or retired, who wants to go on a Tús/CE scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4719/25]

420. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reasons that someone who is six months unemployed cannot be accepted onto the Tús scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4720/25]

421. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Social Protection if the age criteria can be reviewed to go on or stay on a Tús scheme, should an individual meet the other criteria and wish to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4721/25]

151. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection regarding the transfer of occupational pensions to other EU jurisdictions under the IORP II Directive (Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision Directive), to provide the number of transfer requests and accompanying declarations signed by the individual concerned that have been submitted each year since 2012 to 2024 and …