274. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will share any research, evaluation, or administrative analysis undertaken by his Department to assess the social, economic, or behavioural impacts of penalty rate reductions or sanctions on jobseeker recipients; if no, such analysis has been conducted to confirm this explicitly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27377/26]
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275. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection the procedures by which external researchers may apply for access to administrative data held by his Department in relation to unemployment and jobseeker payments, including the number of applications or approaches for access received and approved in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27378/26]
280. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension made by people with dementia under 66 years-of-age for each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of applications that were accepted, rejected and under review; the main reasons those applications were rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27411/26]
1842. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of cases that have been initiated under the Social Welfare Act since 2015 for systemic PRSI misclassification; to provide a breakdown of the outcome of these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23871/26]
1847. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has identified any trends in uptake of parent’s leave and paternity leave in recent years; the projections that have been made for future demand and associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23978/26]
1848. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide the number of people who are in receipt of carer’s allowance and also in receipt of fuel allowance to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24017/26]
1849. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide the number of people who are in receipt of the working family payment and also in receipt of fuel allowance to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24018/26]
1869. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of people who participated in JobBridge [24837/26]
1884. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Social Protection the initial estimated allocation compared to the actual outturn for the period of carbon tax to his Department, disaggregated by the programme or measure funded, for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25274/26]
1886. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection Please also include the number of applications for this area and in which geographical area they were in. [25320/26]
1887. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of allocated carbon tax funding that remained unspent at year end; the amount surrendered back to the Exchequer via the Central Fund; the amount carried over via formal arrangements for deferred surrender; and whether amounts carried over were retained for the specific programme/measure originally allocated or transferred to other na…
1898. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection the total pay bill for the civil service in his Department for each year from 2016 to 2025 inclusive. [25450/26]
1918. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which his Department holds, or has access to, data on social insurance contributors, disaggregated by nationality; if he will provide, for the most recent year available, the number of active contributors to the PRSI system by nationality; the proportion this represents of the total number of persons of that nationality resident in the St…
1919. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which his Department holds, or has access to, data on social insurance contributors disaggregated by nationality; if he will provide, for the most recent year available, any such data including the number of active contributors to the PRSI system by nationality; the proportion this represents of the total number of persons of that nationa…
1926. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of young jobseekers on the reduced youth rate of jobseeker's allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26539/26]
1927. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated 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 in 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26540/26]
1941. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an estimate of the total volume of data currently stored by or on behalf of the State by his Department in data centres in Ireland, data centres outside of Ireland but within the European Union, data centres outside of the European Union and data storage facilities within his own Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. […
332. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of households in receipt of the fuel allowance as of March 2026, broken down by primary payment type, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23366/26]
337. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of the working family payment as of March 2026; the average weekly payment; the total annual expenditure on the scheme in 2025 and the projected expenditure for 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23378/26]
658. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has undertaken any analysis of Ireland’s income replacement rate during maternity, paternity and parent’s leave compared with other OECD countries; and if he is considering reforms to increase income replacement levels during parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21463/26]
663. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1417 of 8 September 2025, if he will provide updated details of the number of fuel allowance recipients following its recent extension, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21672/26]
619. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first and full year cost of increasing the threshold of WFP by 30%. [16174/26]
621. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department can be flexible when considering an application (details supplied); and if he will consider amending the relevant legislation to ensure that women born before 1946 are eligible for the home carer scheme. [16237/26]
632. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the web link to his Department’s Q4 2025 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; the date on which this report was published; and if it has not yet been published, the planned publication date. [16576/26]
633. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to confirm, in respect of his Department’s published quarterly reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders over €20,000 (details supplied), where such reports are published in PDF format but originate from an Excel or similar spreadsheet file, that the underlying data was fully expanded and validated prior to conversion so that all colum…