News & Statements
Update: Means Assessed against Separated or Divorced Persons, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason means are assessed against a separated or divorced person...
Update: Measures to Alleviate Youth Unemployment, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the extent to which her Department continues to provide youth unemployment alleviation measures...
Update: One Parent Family Allowance, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the degree to which she has evaluated the impact of reduced One Parent Family Allowance on the recipients...
Update: Performance of Government Departments, 25th June 2015
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he and his Department continues to monitor the performance of all Government Departments and State or semi-State agencies...
Update: Reducing Long Term Unemployment, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the extent to which her Department continues to focus on the long term unemployed...
Update: Rent Support, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the extent to which adequate resources remain available to her Department to meet Rent Support requirements...
Update: Rent Support & Housing Needs, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the cost of rent support has increased over the past six months; if adequate emphasis is being placed on the need to meet the housing needs...
Update: Replacement for Mobility Grant, 25th June 2015
To ask the Minister for Health if and when a replacement for the Mobility Grant will be announced...
Update: Social Welfare Supports for Self-Employed, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the self-employed may qualify for various social welfare supports...
Update: Unemployment among Previously Self-Employed, 25th June 2015
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of previously self-employed currently remaining unemployed and on the live register...