1253. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether any performance indicators exist to assess the effectiveness of emergency income supports provided to persons fleeing domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43257/26]
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TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work
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Department names as the record prints them. Some changed in June 2025.
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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1254. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he intends to introduce a mechanism to record the uptake, outcomes and processing times associated with domestic violence-related emergency income supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43258/26]
1255. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether any assessment has been undertaken regarding the proportion of persons presenting as homeless following domestic abuse who subsequently access social protection emergency supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43259/26]
1256. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of extending parent’s leave benefit up to eight weeks. [43290/26]
1257. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused DCA in respect of their child despite medical evidence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43341/26]
1258. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Social Protection the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality regarding the issue of pension provision for foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43368/26]
1259. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection to review the impact of the domiciliary care allowance payment ceasing when a child reaches 16 years-of-age, particularly for families of children with type 1 diabetes, whose condition requires ongoing, intensive daily management well into late adolescence. [43376/26]
1260. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a full comparison between current weekly disability related payments, including disability allowance, invalidity pension and disablement benefit, and the national minimum wage equivalent annual income; if he accepts that current payment levels place many people with physical impairments in poverty; and his plans to increase these pa…
1261. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the means testing criteria applied to disability payments, particularly in relation to cohabitation and marriage, whereby the income of a spouse or partner is taken into account; if he accepts that this practice may undermine the financial independence and personal autonomy of people with disabilities; and if consideration will be gi…
1262. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Social Protection whether consideration has been given to amalgamating maternity benefit, paternity benefit and parent’s leave into a single family leave scheme providing up to 12 months of paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child; whether such a scheme could operate on a pay-related basis similar to the new model introduced for jobseeker’s pay-relate…
1263. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Social Protection to consider measures to reduce the cost for those in need of hearing aids through increased PRSI allowance for the hearing aids, or subsidies or some way to assist older people reduce the unaffordable cost of hearing aids which can be in the region of €4,000 to €5,000. [43441/26]
1264. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine the application for the schools meals scheme for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43498/26]
1265. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide an update on a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43502/26]
1266. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a pension payment was stopped or reduced in the case of a person (details supplied); whether the Department will urgently review the case given that the individual is now left without income; whether any interim support can be provided pending review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43522/26]
1267. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection to urgently examine a domiciliary care allowance case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43538/26]
1268. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the details on the total cost of providing translation and interpreter services to all recipients of social protection in each of the years from 2018 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [43564/26]
1269. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether any audits, inspections, compliance reviews or assurance exercises have been undertaken since the introduction of the hot school meals procurement framework to assess whether participating schools are retaining conflict-of-interest declarations, procurement records and supplier communications in accordance with public procurement requirements; …
1270. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether the review currently being undertaken by the CORU-registered dietitian of the School Meals Programme includes an assessment of pupil meal uptake rates, food wastage, pupil and school satisfaction, meal acceptance, supplier compliance with nutritional standards and value for money; whether the findings will be published; when the review is expec…
1271. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection whether unsuccessful suppliers under the hot school meals scheme have access to any formal review, reconsideration, complaints or appeals mechanism beyond raising queries with the contracting authority; whether any independent review mechanism exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43626/26]
1272. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for the carer’s support grant and carer’s allowance currently awaiting decision; the average processing time; and any measures being taken to reduce delays. [43751/26]
1273. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection whether consideration is being given to extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to households experiencing high energy costs arising from disability-related needs. [43752/26]
1274. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures he is taking to ensure that employers are not enrolling employees into occupational pension schemes purely to avoid the minimum contribution rates under My Future Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43802/26]
1275. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will increase the living alone allowance in Budget 2027, in recognition of the increasing cost of living in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43815/26]
1276. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of proposals for a cost of disability payment; whether he intends to introduce such a payment in Budget 2027; the estimated timeline for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43826/26]
1277. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year costs if the back to school clothing and footwear allowance increased to €175 for children aged between 4-11 years and €305 for children aged over 12. [43845/26]