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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 326. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a six month progress report on the implementation of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 will be available considering the commitment to providing this as set out in the strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51384/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 327. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current status of the actions set out in the Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 work programme; if her Department will complete all scheduled actions by the end of 2021 as planned; if she will provide an update on each measure listed in the work programme in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning and for their time. First, targets are important, of course, and particularly important where, obviously, in an awful lot of cases, people are very much waiting to access broadband which is, in many cases, badly needed in their homes. I understand the initial target for the end of this year was 115,000 premises. According to the opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: My last question is on penalties for milestones missed. If the milestones are being revised, as they were this year and will be next year, how will these penalties work? Will they not just be dodged, although that is not the right word?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I will be brief. To be clear on the figures, fewer than 17,000 premises have been fully passed and the target for the end of the year is 60,000. Is that 60,000 premises where order or pre-order is available or 60,000 that have been fully passed? What is the target for fully passed premises by the end of the year? Did the initial target of 115,000 have to do with being fully passed or just...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I appreciate that recruitment is not something the Minister of State can control but perhaps if recruitment had started in June 2020 when the service was opened rather than seven months into 2021, we would not have much of an issue now. While I acknowledge that significant investment went into opening this facility in the first instance, funding did not carry through until earlier this year....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 91. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the staffing levels and range of services being provided currently in a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50829/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister please provide an update on the staffing levels and the current services available in the e-mental health hub in Castlerea in my constituency? This hub, as the Minister knows, was opened in June 2020. No funding was provided from January of this year. This is an issue I have raised repeatedly. Funding was put in place in July. Has it been spent?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Just to confirm, three posts remain unfilled in the CAMHS Connect and none has been filled for the psychiatry of later life service.

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: The latest report from the Residential Tenancies Board published earlier this month shows rents in County Roscommon have increased by 8.6% and in County Galway by 9.4%. That is just in the last year alone. Average rents in County Roscommon are now over €718 per month and in County Galway rents have surpassed €1,000 per month and are now approximately €1,300 per month....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if there are current vacancies in a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50830/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rights of Way (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that persons (details supplied) are not being offered compensation when they are set to lose their existing access right of way on a private road as it is taken for the new N5 Scramogue to Ballaghaderreen bypass; the reason they have not been offered a CPO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51068/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 598 of 28 April 2021, the actions that have been taken post Caranua to ensure continued support of survivors of institutional abuse; if she will provide details of the ongoing supports that remain in place given the acknowledgement that survivors must be supported lifelong; if an interdepartmental group is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) with seven children with additional needs across five classrooms in a school of 165 children has only one part-time special needs assistant; the reason the school has not been visited to observe the children and their psychological reports to ensure their needs are met; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 609. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that consideration is given to the incredibly valuable work of community employment supervisors as part of ongoing negotiations regarding pensions; if she will request that a forum for engagement be established between her Department and the supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Christmas bonus payment announced in budget 2022 will be provided to persons who are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, at that time; if she will outline which social protection scheme recipients will be eligible to receive the Christmas bonus this year; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the poverty impact of reduced rates of jobseeker's allowance for young persons will be published given that the report is now over 18 months overdue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51178/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the report of the child maintenance review group will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51179/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the fuel allowance, by social protection scheme, from September 2019 to date, by payment type and month, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51180/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 843. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 23 September 2021, the number of nursing homes and the number of residents by county to correspond with the average monthly payment made to private nursing homes under the National Treatment Purchase Fund which has been provided in tabular form. [51044/21]