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Willie O'Dea Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
393. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a State pension non-contributory appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3948/25]
Michael Healy-Rae Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
394. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied) affecting their pension entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3949/25]
Eamon Scanlon Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
395. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection the compensation and additional supports that will be provided to employees of companies currently involved in stocking and servicing self-service tobacco and vaping vending machines, who are at risk of losing their jobs when the ban under the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2024 takes effect on 31 August 2025; and if he wi…
Willie O'Dea Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
396. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a disability allowance appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3998/25]
Holly Cairns Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
397. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a report of the inspections which took place in 2024 of schools participating in the hot school meals programme; and to provide a representative sample of lunches provided, with an ingredient and preparation method breakdown. [3999/25]
Rose Conway-Walsh Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
John Paul O'Shea Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Erin McGreehan Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Conor D McGuinness Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Michael Healy-Rae Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Gary Gannon Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Michael Cahill Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Brian Brennan Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Catherine Connolly Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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 the Bill in either Ho…
Matt Carthy Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Pa Daly Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Matt Carthy Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Sorca Clarke Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Willie O'Dea Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Alan Kelly Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
412. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection when the Bereaved Partner's Pension Bill 2024 will be enacted. [4397/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Eoghan Kenny Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Natasha Newsome Drennan Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Alan Kelly Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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]
Alan Kelly Written 11 Feb 2025 · to Social
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 delivery of consistent high…