1227. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection for the first year and full year cost of increasing the age-limit of the one parent family payment to 12 years and jobseeker’s transitional payment to 15 years. [43118/26]
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All 20 departments
| Department | Questions | Oral | Written |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 27,764 | 145 | 27,619 |
| Education | 14,148 | 145 | 14,003 |
| Transport | 11,178 | 139 | 11,039 |
| Justice | 9,962 | 135 | 9,827 |
| Housing | 9,139 | 160 | 8,979 |
| Children | 8,691 | 142 | 8,549 |
| Social | 5,914 | 135 | 5,779 |
| Finance | 5,884 | 153 | 5,731 |
| Agriculture | 4,894 | 136 | 4,758 |
| Enterprise | 3,942 | 139 | 3,803 |
| Climate | 3,915 | 130 | 3,785 |
| Foreign | 3,868 | 190 | 3,678 |
| Public Expenditure | 3,737 | 167 | 3,570 |
| Further and Higher Education | 3,437 | 140 | 3,297 |
| Taoiseach | 2,665 | 1,495 | 1,170 |
| Defence | 2,599 | 179 | 2,420 |
| Culture | 2,492 | 147 | 2,345 |
| Rural | 2,361 | 140 | 2,221 |
| Environment | 1,029 | 26 | 1,003 |
| Tourism | 703 | 31 | 672 |
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1228. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection for the first year and full year cost of increasing the age-limit of the jobseeker’s transitional payment until a family’s youngest child has completed secondary education or turns 18, whichever is older. [43119/26]
1229. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection for the first year and full year cost of reintroducing the State pension for 65 year-olds. [43120/26]
1230. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection for the first year and full year cost of extending adoptive leave by one week. [43121/26]
1231. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full year cost of introducing a part-time rate of jobseekers self-employed for those making less than a 40-hour week at the current minimum wage. [43123/26]
1232. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full-year cost of increasing the maximum rate of the additional needs payment for additional diet expenses by €1. [43125/26]
1233. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full-year cost of increasing community employment, Tús and rural social scheme payments by €1 per week, each year for two years. [43126/26]
1235. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the first year and full year cost of increasing the State pension by €1 per week per person. [43128/26]
1236. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the additional first year and full-year cost of increasing the living alone allowance. [43130/26]
1237. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the current cost of non-State pension social protection payments to people aged 65. [43131/26]
1238. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of children resident in IPAS accommodation who are eligible to receive the child benefit payment. [43132/26]
1239. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of jobseeker's allowance, child support payments, one parent family payments, working family payments, and jobseeker's transitional payments, respectively; the average payment received per household and the overall value of cash-transfers for each payment, in tabular form. [43137/26]
1240. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if kinship carers are eligible for the back-to-school allowance. [43138/26]
1241. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of disability allowance, disablement benefit, partial capacity benefit; incapacity supplement or illness benefit who lost their payments when they reached the normal retirement age of 66 in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and in the first quarter of 2026, by payment, in tabular form. [43136/26]
1242. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the current rate of the living alone allowance; the most recent occasion there was an increase in this allowance; if he will consider an increase to this allowance in budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43142/26]
1243. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection if he accepts that where a State-funded programme operates on a permanent and ongoing basis within schools, but significant numbers of workers engaged in delivering that programme are employed on insecure, term-time, or seasonal arrangements vulnerable to disruption upon changes in catering providers, issues arise concerning workforce stability, equali…
1244. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of the number of persons whose employment arises wholly or predominantly from publicly funded school meals provision and who may be classified as educational seasonal workers for the purposes of social welfare entitlements; whether his Department maintains any data in respect of such workers; and if …
1245. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department has examined the extent to which employment supported through the Hot School Meals Scheme gives rise to seasonal or interrupted employment patterns during school closure periods; the estimated number of workers affected; and the measures available to such workers during periods where schools are closed. [43238/26]
1246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he intends to introduce a system for recording the sector or business activity of enterprises approved under the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43250/26]
1247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether any assessment has been undertaken of the survival rate of businesses established under the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme after one year, three years and five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43251/26]
1248. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department tracks whether participants approved under the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme subsequently return to welfare supports after completion of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43252/26]
1249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether any national analysis has been undertaken regarding sectors experiencing market saturation among Back to Work Enterprise Allowance-supported businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43253/26]
1250. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will publish the criteria used by Employment Personal Advisers and Enterprise Officers when assessing sustainability, displacement, seasonality and market saturation under the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43254/26]
1251. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department records the number of persons accessing Rent Supplement under the domestic violence fast-track arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43255/26]
1252. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department records the number of persons accessing the Travel Supplement protocol introduced for victims of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43256/26]