1213. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update regarding a request for review of DCA application in respect of a person (details supplied). [43093/26]
Topics / Social Welfare Payments
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsSocial Welfare Payments
822 questions from 114 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 21 October 2026.
822
questions
801 written, 21 oral
114
TDs have asked
10
parties and groups
Independents counted together
10
departments asked
Questions per month
The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.
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| Month | Questions |
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| January 2025 | 3 |
| February 2025 | 94 |
| March 2025 | 13 |
| April 2025 | 40 |
| May 2025 | 36 |
| June 2025 | 43 |
| July 2025 | 40 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 20 |
| October 2025 | 8 |
| November 2025 | 94 |
| December 2025 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 75 |
| February 2026 | 42 |
| March 2026 | 25 |
| April 2026 | 69 |
| May 2026 | 38 |
| June 2026 | 62 |
| July 2026 | 30 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 48 |
| October 2026 | 14 |
Who asks, by party
The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.
The TDs who asked most
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The questions
1214. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider adding disability recipients to the annual €2,000 lump sum payment in Budget 2027; and if he will make a permanent cost of disability payment to protect vulnerable people from poverty. [43096/26]
1218. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of extending the guardian payment to cover children over the age of 12. [43107/26]
1219. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of increasing the rate of guardian payment to be on par with foster allowance. [43108/26]
1222. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of doubling the provision of paternity leave benefit to four weeks. [43112/26]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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…
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]
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]