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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

SOCIAL WELFARE - REVENUE

- MEDICAL CARDS

SOCIAL WELFARE

General

• Waiting times for social welfare decisions
• Method of Social Welfare Payment

• Collecting Social Welfare
• Social Welfare Delays
• Social Welfare Benefits and Improved Pathways to Employment and Education
• Value for Money Review of Social Welfare Payments
• Compensation and social welfare
• State allowances on reaching 18
• Priority Questions: Social and Family Affairs Facilitators
• Bills published by Department of Social and Family Affairs
• Habitual Residence Condition
• Appeals to social welfare upheld
• Work welfare benefits
• Habitual residency as qualifying condition for social welfare
• Time taken to process social welfare applications
• Changes to habitual residency clause
• Prevention of fraud and abuse of the social welfare system
• Social welfare payments under review or appeal
• Cost of foreign visits by Ministers from Department of Social and Family Affairs
• Fraud in Social Welfare
• Savings made from fraud detection in Social and Family Affairs
• Recipients of a payment in each social welfare payment category
• Cuts to social welfare
• Waiting time for social welfare allowances
• Prosecutions in respect of persons found to be claiming disability benefit fraudulently
• Social Welfare and Pensions Bill: Cuts to Social Welfare in Budget 2010
• Social Welfare Bill: Budget 2010
• Private Members’ Business: Social Welfare Cuts - Motion
• Leaders’ Questions: Social Welfare Cuts in Budget 2010
• Fraud in Social Welfare
• Fraud on Social Welfare
• Social Welfare applications disallowed on failure to meet habitual residency grounds
• Refusal of Social Welfare Payment
• Priority Questions: Partial capacity benefit scheme for people in receipt of illness or disability payments
• Waiting times for social welfare payments
• Number of recipients of social welfare allowances
• Refusals of social welfare payment on grounds of habitual residency
• Length of time to process social welfare payments
• Social Welfare Appeals
• Social Welfare Appeals
• Social Protection budget
• Backlog of social welfare appeals
• Control, eligibility and structural reform outlined in Budget 2011
• Number of persons denied a welfare payment due in 2010 due to failure to satisfy the habitual residence condition
• Priority Questions: Waiting times for Social Welfare Appeals
• Entitlement to minimum standard of social protection under UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Priority Questions: Impact of EU/IMF deal on social welfare payments
• Impact of EU/IMF deal on social welfare
• Disallowed Social Welfare claims in 2009 and 2010
• Breakdown of social welfare appeals
• Habitual residence rule discriminates against persons with disabilities
• Number of social welfare of appeals lodged in 2008, 2009 and 2010
• Social welfare entitlements subject to tax
• Social welfare applications refused on habitual residency grounds
• Statistics for all social welfare payments

Disability Allowance

• Disability Benefit Statistics

• Review of Disability Payment
• Change in disability payment
• Disability Allowance and Tax
• Review of cost of disability payment
• Amount spent on Review of Disability Allowance
• Disability Allowance Survey
• Disregard for disability allowance
• Automatic entitlement to Disability Allowance on entering residential care
• Health Service Executive or service providers are taking money from people with intellectual disabilities in their care without informing their families
• Allowing people on disability allowance take breaks abroad
• Time taken to process an application for disability benefit
• Direct payments to people with disabilities
• Review of cost of disability payment
• Raising Qualifying Age for Disability Allowance in Budget 2009
• Changes to Disability Allowance in Budget 2009
• Compensation Payments disregarded in means test for Disability Allowance
• Qualifying Age for Disability Allowance
• Measures to offset savings in light of Disability Allowance Reversal
• Priority Questions: Changes to Disability Allowance
• Future Plans for Disability Allowance
• Disability Allowance and entitlement to state pension
• Reduction in disability allowance
• Reduced disability allowance and pension taken as means
• Deducation in social welfare payment on entering community employment
• Numbers receiving disability allowance doubling
• Review of the Disability Allowance
• Number of people receiving Disability Allowance
• Disability Allowance Statistics
• Number of persons on disability payments who are engaged in rehabilitative employment
• Delays in processing applications for habitual residency, job seeker’s allowance, medical cards and disability allowance
• Refusal of applications for Disability Allowance
• Participants on a community employment scheme in receipt of disability allowance are entitled to an increased rate of payment in respect of dependent children
• Savings from ending disability allowance
• Relaxing the means test rules for jobseeker’s and disability allowance
• Provisions made to enable persons on disability allowance to accept occasional or part time paid employment
• Number of applications for disability allowance currently pending or on appeal
• Waiting time for disability allowance payments
• Children with disabilities in full-time services receiving disability allowance
• Waiting times for decisions on Disability Allowance
• Adjournment Debate: Time to process Disability Allowance
• Cost of Disability
• Protecting Payments to People with Disabilities
• Figures on carer’s allowance, domiciliary allowance, jobseeker’s allowance and disability allowance in Clare
• Social Protection budget
• Delays on disability allowance claims
• Social Welfare Appeals
• Applications received for Disability Allowance since 2006
• Social welfare appeals
• Irish citizens refused allowances under habitual residency clause
• Priority Questions: Age eligibility age for Disability Allowance
• Reverse cuts to Disability Allowance
• Current process for Disability Allowance
• Number of appeals lodged for disability allowance in 2008, 2009 and 2010
• Springboard programme and  people on Disability Allowance
• Waiting time for decision on Disability Allowance

Other Social Welfare Allowances

• Child Benefit
• Recipients of rent supplement by work status and those on welfare by principal welfare payment
• Oral Questions: Household Benefits Package
• Maximum amount the spouse of a disability benefit claimant can earn before losing their child dependant increase
• Taxing of disablement pension and payments

Direct Payments to People with Disabilities

• National Disability Authority and direct payments to persons with disabilities

Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme

• Partial Capacity Benefit scheme
• Partial capacity benefit scheme

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MEDICAL CARDS

General

• Medical Cards
• Wage Subsidy Scheme and Medical Card
• Tax relief for parents of children with a disability
• Medical Hardship Fund
• Restore funding for orthotics equipment and other disability aids for persons with a medical card
• Automatic renewal of medical cards for people with intellectual disabilities

Programme for Government Commitment

• Medical Cards and Disability Allowance
• People with Disabilities working and retaining Medical Cards
• Changes in Medical Card Thresholds and Eligibility
• Full Medical Card on Diagnosis to Children with an Intellectual Disability
• Medical card for children under 18
• Income Limit for Medical Cards

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REVENUE

General

• ‘Incapacitated child’ tax credit
• Tax deferred incentivised disability savings plan
• Waive VAT on specialised medical equipment
• VAT refund for a panic alarm system
• Tax relief on private tuition
• Review of the impact of tax individualisation when due to a disability a spouse is not in a position to take up employment
• Tax Relief on private tuition
• VAT refund for works carried out on adapted homes

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