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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 70. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps her Department has taken to address the backlog of applications in the local improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53699/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister about the ongoing backlog within the local improvement scheme. We are all aware of the scheme and the demand for it. I know the Minister has increased funding to it, which is welcome, but there seems to be huge demand that is not being met in counties throughout the State. Will she provide up with an update on that?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 86. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the Towns First Policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53707/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Transport (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 87. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on her engagement with the Department of Transport to improve rural public transport services and pilot new transport initiatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 105. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the building acquisition measure funding under the town and village renewal scheme will be continued into 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 109. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the LEADER Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53709/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 131. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the Islands Strategy; when the Strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53706/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider making recommendations made by the Workplace Relations Commission obligatory to be honoured where it finds against a body which is State-funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is flexibility within the Housing Agency rules in cases in which a person who has been approved for a local authority mortgage cannot have it drawn down given that no management company is currently in place in the estate and the estate is classed as unfinished in order to ensure that an approved applicant would...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a community support grant funding application decision (details supplied) will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53723/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I will be brief. Mr. Kearney put it better than any of us could when he said people just want to live in their homes. This is really the top and the bottom of the issue. It is a small ask in this day and age, but, unfortunately, this is the request. This is all that is being looked for. All of us local representatives have been on the ground at Lough Funshinagh. It is important to again...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts to address the backlog in forestry licence issuance and meeting afforestation targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53239/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (25 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consideration that was given to the additional cost associated with complying with new TB regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53240/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on work that is underway to improve pay and terms and conditions for school caretakers similar to that achieved for school secretaries; the stage this process is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53124/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Transport Costs (25 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects her Department to complete exploratory work regarding proposals from an organisation (details supplied); if further meetings on this matter will be arranged before the end of 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53146/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is resident in Ireland (details supplied) and is working for an English company and therefore, paying tax and insurance under the English system can access supports here on the basis of the Convention on Social Security between Ireland and England; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53284/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank all the witnesses for attending the meeting and for their presentations. I have always been of the mind that the courts are not the place for dealing with child maintenance. It seems there is consensus on that. It is not the right environment to determine child maintenance arrangements. As we know, payments can be ordered by the judge of the day, who can choose a figure off the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a situation in which part-time students were unable to participate in an in-person graduation ceremony in which full-time students could do so (details supplied); if he will advise on the reason that educational institutions at times do not provide a ceremony for their part-time students who are graduating;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify community employment scheme participants’ eligibility for the fuel allowance; if a person can retain their entitlement to fuel allowance once they join a CE scheme; if they can apply for fuel allowance once they are on a CE scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52277/22]

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Minister began his contribution by saying that nobody in this House had a monopoly on caring. Surely, if this Government cared, the one most basic thing it would do is to ensure that a ban on disconnections is introduced in the State as a very basic measure to show that this Government cares as people face into an unprecedented winter...