Provision of social welfare income supports

What this means

• The Department of Social Protection is the public body responsible for running social welfare income support schemes in Ireland.[source]
• Its legal basis comes from the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, which sets out the rules for social insurance and social assistance in Ireland.[source]
• The Department pays out a wide range of supports including pensions, jobseeker's payments, child benefit, and payments for people with disabilities and carers.[source]
• These payments affect a large share of the Irish population, making this one of the most significant areas of public spending and accountability.[source]
• There are 3 implementing commitments linked to this mandate, meaning specific actions are being tracked to ensure the Department delivers on its obligations.[source]

Direct impact (4)

• duty held by body
  Department of Social ProtectionBody
• implements mandate via commitment
  Maintain the State pension age at 66Commitment
• implements mandate via commitment
  Significantly increase the Carer's Allowance income disregardCommitment
• implements mandate via commitment
  Introduce pay-related jobseeker's benefitCommitment

Indirect impact (2)

Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.

• duty held by body → responsible for commitment2-hop via dept-social
  Extend hot school meals to all primary schoolsCommitment
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister for Social Protection2-hop via dept-social
  Dara CallearyOfficeholder