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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Some of what the Minister said regarding what the Department is doing, instructed by her, is really welcome. While the Department is not obliging parents to prove or show proof that they have sought maintenance, in practice is maintenance still being used in meeting the calculation of the lone parent payment? There was no agreement in the review group regarding the possibility of setting...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the processing of additional needs’ payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6031/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister to provide an update on the processing of additional needs payments. These payments are typically made in emergency situations to people who are struggling financially. It is clear that processing times have reduced and I imagine they have reduced significantly which is welcome and important. Will the Minister please provide an update on processing times at the moment?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister's update and the two-week processing time are welcome. In September I received a reply to a parliamentary question stating that 95% of applications were taking between five and eight weeks to be processed. I appreciate CWOs are stepping in where they can and where the person in need can access them in the first place, which has become more difficult. I would argue that few...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Last July I suggested that it go online and I welcome that it will. One of the issues the Minister and others have raised, as most Deputies on this side of the House will acknowledge, is that where people make applications and submit supporting documentation that is either not good enough or is needed again, it has delayed their receipt of payments. I acknowledge that. I hope that with the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department’s review of the extension of the free travel scheme to persons with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6035/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on her Department's review of means testing for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6039/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the consultation process as part of her Department’s work on addressing the cost of disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6037/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to enrolling children from new communities, including those under international protection, to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of disability allowance, invalidity pension and blind pension as of January 2023; the total spend on each payment in January 2023 following the implementation of the €12 rate increase; and if she will provide this information in tabular form, by payment. [6304/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide advice with regard to parking at Rossaveel car park (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6256/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (9 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 315. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will advise of the car parking facilities and supports that are available for island communities; if her Department has had any engagement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine on providing permits for car parks which are currently only provided on a commercial basis; if she will provide advice on this matter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their opening statements and submissions. They have examined this in great detail so I thank them for that. A number of my questions have been asked and, therefore, I will not repeat them. In her opening statement, Ms Murdock referred to the significant input from taxpayers. We are in a situation now, particularly for young people starting out,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank our witnesses for coming in and for their opening statements. What has been said about the rate of relief is really important. It is not something that has been raised to date, certainly not in any major way. We will need to look at that. It is important to examine international best practice, because this is new to us. We are unique in that an awful lot of countries have a second...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional families that will be eligible for the working family payment as a result of the €40 income increase announced in budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5722/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (2 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if foster parents can avail of parental leave and benefit or parental leave where a newborn baby or child under stage age of two years is placed with a foster parent or family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5478/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has any plans to dispose of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4975/23]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for attending. The work of the Pensions Commission is obviously very important. It has made a recommendation on the abolition of mandatory retirement. Will the Minister introduce legislation in that regard? I agree with Deputy Ó Cuív's comments on the means test and the €20,000 amount really needs to...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: The exceptional needs payments have obviously been really important last year and this year. Additional staff were to be taken on by the Department. Will the Minister give us an update on those additional staff? Is it possible to apply for exceptional needs payments and additional needs payments online? This is something I raised with the Minister last year. It would be helpful to a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the review of the RSS. I presume there will be widespread consultation on it because that would be really important. It is the people on the ground who are well placed when it comes to a review of the scheme. Could the Minister provide us with an update on the ongoing issues involving the pay and conditions of CE supervisors and assistant supervisors? This has been a...