140. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the changes that will come into effect in 2025 in relation to the interaction between ex-gratia lump sum redundancy payments and entitlement to jobseeker's benefit for workers who are made redundant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6665/25]
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141. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of any planned changes to remote working arrangements applying to staff in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6698/25]
142. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the number of international protection applicants who received a clothing allowance for each year from 2021 to date; the total costs involved for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6702/25]
143. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the number of international protection applicants who have qualified for the working family payment for each year from 2021 to date; the total costs involved for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6703/25]
144. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the wage subsidy scheme is restricted to employees that have been employed for less than 12 months; the supports available for longer-term workers who have recently become disabled in such a way that their productivity may be reduced, but wish to remain in their employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6739/25]
145. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the number of international protection applicants in receipt of a homeless daily expenses allowance for each year from 2021 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6755/25]
146. Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 842 of 22 January 2025, if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6772/25]
476. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the current amount of funding allocated to the rural social scheme; and the number of individuals in receipt of payment under the scheme, by local area, in tabular form. [6218/25]
477. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants to the rural social scheme; and the number of rejected applications to the scheme, from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [6219/25]
478. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection if his predecessor spoke formally with her US counterpart in 2024. [5470/25]
479. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a carer’s allowance application (details supplied) after the person was awarded domiciliary care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5498/25]
480. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding an invalidity pension appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5511/25]
481. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a domiciliary care allowance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5535/25]
482. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether or not carer's allowance is halted for those receiving maternity or parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5597/25]
483. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures in place to prevent persons accessing social protection services using duplicated personal public service (PPS) numbers; if instances of duplicated PPSNs have been uncovered at any point from 2016 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5619/25]
484. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason social welfare accounts were suspended in County Monaghan during Storm Éowyn; the recourse available to those part-time workers who lost payments due to being unable to submit a job seekers declaration; the contingency plans which were in place prior to Storm Éowyn; their proposals to introduce more effective redundancies; and if he will ma…
485. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department received funding support for projects of any kind from the United States of America International Development for the period 2016 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5656/25]
486. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection to review a family income supplement application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5661/25]
487. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to mark the 50th anniversary of the registration on 8 March 1975 of the first independent and impartial, State-supported Citizens Information Services (at an event in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, where Tánaiste Brendan Corish was guest of honour); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5662/25]
488. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the metrics put in place to measure the quality of the Citizens Information Service before and after the restructuring of corporate governance structures enforced in 2018 despite a majority in Dáil Éireann deeming those changes "flawed and ill-considered" (Joint Oireachtas Committee Report, 1 June 2017); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [566…
489. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is satisfied that the additional expenditure of €4.55 million on restructured Citizens Information Service, as reported to the Oireachtas committee on social protection in November 2017, represents value for money; whether the restructured corporate governance model has, as yet, achieved European Foundation for Quality Management accreditation, as t…
490. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive their humanitarian claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5761/25]
491. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of disallowed applications for carer's allowance in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5815/25]
492. Deputy Cormac Devlin 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. [5823/25]
493. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5828/25]