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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients of the benefit for those over 65 years; the full year cost of this scheme to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the weekly payment rate for the carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit to €325 per week; and if she will provide this information in tabular form by payment. [36496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process of securing an oral hearing for social welfare appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the intended changes to the appeals process from a Departmental organisation perspective; the way that the social welfare appeals office fits into these structures alongside her Department overall; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to the allocation of additional refuge spaces in counties Roscommon and Galway given the recent transfer of responsibility for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence service delivery to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35743/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by older people with accounts with a bank (details supplied) who have to find alternative banking and have no photographic identification, passport or driver's licence, which many in their 80s and 90s, in particular, do not have; if provision will be made for these citizens; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to extend the provision of the hot school meals scheme to continue beyond term time in 2022 and throughout the summer months, as it did for the previous academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35271/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of maternity benefit and paternity benefit who also received another means tested social protection payment from 2019 to date; if she will advise on these figures as an overall percentage by payment type and year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare schemes in respect of which payment rates and rules may be adjusted by way of ministerial order and those requiring amendments to primary legislation, respectively, in tabular form; and the number of recipients and annual spend on each of the schemes. [35172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on the eligibility of school cleaners to avail of the cycle to work scheme considering that other school staff are able to avail of the scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on the eligibility for recipients who are moving off domiciliary care allowance in a year to receive the carer's support grant in the same year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34793/22]

Emergency Budget: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: When I speak on issues relating to the cost of living, issues that Sinn Féin has been raising for a long time, I usually recall the real life stories and situations that are brought to my office and those of other Sinn Féin Deputies, but the Government knows all of this, or at least it tells us it knows it all. It tells us that it knows and understands, yet still it will not act....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The Taoiseach will be aware of the thousands of organisations in our communities that are supported by and rely on the rural social scheme. Of the 2,969 participants on the scheme today, nearly half of them will be forced to leave next year should the six-year rule go ahead. This is on top of 380 current vacancies. Galway Rural Development provided us with a list of 172 organisations in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 132. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade and investment mission to Italy will happen in quarter 3 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Appointments (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of bilateral meetings that he has had with his European Union counterparts to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33794/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 571. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any persons who are currently undergoing military training to become qualified military pilots are sent to the United States of America as part of their training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yearly cost of increasing by €20 the weekly rates of disability allowance, domiciliary care allowance and carer's allowance, respectively, by payment type in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33780/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the person who is in receipt of social welfare payments following the death of a person; the payments that continue following the death of a person; the person the payments are paid to in cases in which there are caring duties; the length of time that they are paid for respective of the relationship; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1107 of 14 June, if she will advise on the number of exceptional needs payments and urgent needs payments that have been made from 2020 to date, by county; if this information can be provided in tabular form, by county and by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1107 of 14 June, if she will advise on the number of exceptional needs payment and urgent needs payment applications that have been received by her Department in 2022 to date; the number that have been approved; the number that have been rejected; if this information can be provided...