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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing an additional two week parent’s leave and benefit; the cost of increasing the leave and benefit from five to seven weeks per child as scheduled from August 2022; and the estimated cost of increasing the leave and benefit from seven to eight weeks in tabular form. [15800/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending social welfare eligibility to stamp 1 visa holders, particularly in cases of serious illness or emergency access to schemes such as the supplementary welfare allowance considering the recent focus on migration and need to ensure supports for refugees; and if she will make a statement on the...

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

Claire Kerrane: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on community employment schemes are required to meet the qualifying period of 390 days in receipt of the jobseeker’s allowance in order to qualify for the fuel allowance before they enter community employment given that those referred to community employment by her Department are obliged to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing exemptions for specific types of savings within means testing for carer’s allowance such as cases (details supplied) and in consideration of forthcoming changes to capital thresholds later in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16555/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Environmental Schemes (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of one-stop shops as part of the Government’s new national retrofitting scheme; when persons will be able to apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15621/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning permission is disallowed on sites that are only accessible via a national secondary route; if his attention has been drawn to the implications of this for farming families with land along these routes in particular; if this is being examined as part of new national rural guidelines; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to introduce a grant to assist persons restoring derelict properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15620/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration that is given to adequate space in classrooms when seeking to reduce the pupil to teacher ratio to ensure that children are not crammed in classrooms allowing them an adequate and safe space in the classroom environment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any legal requirements in relation to the minimum space requirement for children in classrooms; if she has examined the matter; if not, if she will consider same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15575/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a citizens information office (details supplied) is closed to the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of investigations launched in a region (details supplied); the number of these investigations that relate to one staff member alone; the cost to the State of the investigations, including legal advice; if she has concerns in relation to the matter; if she has examined the matter; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mental Health Services (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 308. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a group (details supplied) will be included as eligible to receive counselling from the HSE following the 2016 report from the United Nations on safe and child-sensitive counselling which recommended that these services be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 377. To ask the Minister for Health if home care workers are being hired by the HSE in CHO2; if so, the number that are being hired; and the timeline for same. [15603/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway that are approved for home care hours and are not yet receiving them. [15604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with an address in counties Roscommon and Galway that are on outpatient waiting lists for procedures. [15605/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the vacancies that remain at the new E-mental health hub in Castlerea, County Roscommon. [15606/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans to regulate the home care sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by home care workers as regards mileage costs for travelling as part of their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that she has taken to make it easier to recruit home care workers into the sector in order to reduce the current waiting lists. [15609/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the €100 emergency support payment that has been announced for licensed hauliers. It is a help and it will go some small way towards assisting hauliers. Those transporting livestock are exempt from having haulage licences. They should be included in the scheme. Since this payment was announced, a number of bus operators in Roscommon and Galway have been in touch to seek...