Parliamentary questions

760. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection further to FOI decision FOI-2026-28668 stating that no documents exist regarding enforcement of PRSI liabilities arising from scope section employment-status decisions, to reconcile this with replies from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Finance which confirm that PRSI liabilities from misc…

761. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10162/26]

762. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale for disability allowance remaining a means-tested payment in Ireland, notwithstanding existing income disregards, particularly in light of the system in the United Kingdom where certain disability income supports are not subject to means testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10175/26]

763. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department has considered the experience of Irish citizens returning from the United Kingdom who encounter differences in disability income supports and eligibility criteria, including the use of means testing; whether guidance is provided to assist such individuals in understanding the Irish system; and if he will make a sta…

764. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce a cost of disability payment over the lifetime of the Government; and the way it will be calculated. [10362/26]

765. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in each county or Dáil constituency in receipt of the old age pension. [10363/26]

766. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in each county or Dáil constituency in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance. [10364/26]

767. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in each county or Dáil constituency in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit. [10365/26]

768. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on the merits of allowing for a savings disregard in relation to the means test for carers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10407/26]

769. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection if a savings disregard in relation to the means test for carers allowance is under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10408/26]

770. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has engaged with representative groups for carers in relation to their request that savings are disregarded as part of the means test for carers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10409/26]

771. Deputy Peter Roche asked the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on social welfare payments in the State in the calendar year 2025, per welfare payment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10494/26]

288. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection to investigate a matter (details supplied) and allow for home caring credits to be used in both ways in the calculation of the state pension, as by not allowing this, persons are missing out on their full pension entitlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8795/26]

289. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection if a pension matter can be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8866/26]

290. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has considered abolishing the means test for disability allowance, or excluding income generated from work from the means testing formula, in recognition of the fact that disabled people who are able to work still endure the same higher cost pressures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8868/26]

291. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide any analysis conducted by his Department which compares best practice on the structuring of disability payments with similar allowances in other jurisdictions, particularly with regard to weather abolishing the means test for the disabilities allowance has been considered in light of the lack of a means test for the persona…

292. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason pensions and social welfare payments cannot be paid together or at the same time, with the exception of carers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9096/26]

714. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of calls received by the national community welfare scheme in each month of 2025, in tabular form. [7379/26]

715. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports available to parents who do not qualify for the bereaved parent grant due to the fact their wife/husband/civil partner/cohabitant passed away before 21 July 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7460/26]

716. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to ensure that a person will receive a payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7461/26]

717. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of meetings of the Disability Consultative Forum in 2025; the number that will take place in 2026; the dates on which they will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7480/26]

718. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7632/26]

719. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection to reconsider introducing a cost of living disability payment in 2026 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7675/26]

720. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1545 of 13 January 2026, the position regarding a timeline for the phasing out of the means test for carer’s allowance as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7738/26]

721. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1545 of 13 January 2026, the approximate financial cost to the state of removing the means test for carers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7739/26]