PQ 1769
1769. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 15 July 2025, if he accepts that his Department, using as it does its customers' PPS number, can readily identify if a person whose payment is under review is over 80 years-of-age; the reason reviews of the aged and infirm do not provide for the sensitivity required to ensure that excessive stress and consequential ill health is caused to the aged and vulnerable; if he will now provide the details of the number of people who have been reviewed over the past five years over 80 years-of-age; the savings achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41330/25]
Introduced
29 July 2025
Last action
—
Status
written
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
29 July 2025
Summary
1769. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 15 July 2025, if he accepts that his Department, using as it does its customers' PPS number, can readily identify if a person whose payment is under review is over 80 years-of-age; the reason reviews of the aged and infirm do not provide for the sensitivity required to ensure that excessive stress and consequential ill health is caused to the aged and vulnerable; if he will now provide the details of the number of people who have been reviewed over the past five years over 80 years-of-age; the savings achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41330/25]
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Departmental Data
Departmental Data
xml · EN · 29 July 2025
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2025-07-29/1769/
- Open data entity: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/question/2025-07-29/pq_1769