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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister said that part of the reason for the first phase of the tendering process was to expand the service significantly for those who are furthest away from the labour market. Does she agree that the ending of the walk-in service, which I understand will not be provided in the new model, will not do that? I do not understand how she will reach those furthest away from the labour...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I am not arguing with that. As I said, I take the Minister at her word on the legal advice but there is no EU law on procurement or anything else that requires the Department to change the model. The Minister said there was extensive consultation. That is fine but I assume staff in local employment services and jobs clubs did not seek these changes. I am trying to understand where the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be a review of the rates of payment for the parent’s leave and benefit scheme to ensure that parents can afford taking up the leave including with regard to situations in which employers previously topped-up salaries of parents availing of this scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to extend the parent’s leave and benefit to all parents of children born after November 2019 given that the current legislation excludes parents of children born by surrogacy; if he will ensure that lone-parents can avail of the full ten-weeks of the benefit and leave; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow any flexibility for rural schools when it comes to retaining a teacher in which student numbers have reduced given the continued complexities of Covid-19 in school communities and the impact of the loss of a teacher to a school, its students and the wider community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48910/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any flexibility in cases in which a person (details supplied) has the required number of PRSI contributions but not at the necessary class for the invalidity pension given that through no fault of the person's own, the person had paid a WOPS stamp during their early years at work; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Register Office (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time for registering a birth and registering a death; and the number of applications awaiting processing for both. [48945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of child benefit; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed. [48946/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of PPS numbers; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed. [48947/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the offices under her Department that remain closed to the public due to Covid-19. [48948/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Service (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the civil registration office in Dublin remains closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48949/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a closed facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48950/21]

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion and commend People Before Profit on bringing it forward this morning. As we all know, energy costs have been increasing consistently in the past number of years and families and households are now facing their highest ever electricity and heating bills in many cases. We have heard much talk in recent weeks about the fuel allowance and any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if second year students that were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment are eligible to apply for the back to education allowance considering many students will have lost their job as a result of the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48547/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I have to leave as I am due to speak in the Chamber and I will return immediately after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for coming and for their presentations. I apologise because I missed part of the questions and answers. If I ask questions that have already been answered, therefore, please feel free to skip over them. I will watch the recording of this meeting later. I will pose my questions to all the witnesses and then whoever wishes to answer may do so. They can suit...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I recently met with early years educators working in counties Roscommon and Galway on their new deal for early years and budget submission for 2022. I met with so many young women, in particular, in early years education doing a job they absolutely love. You can tell that as soon as you meet them. They are really struggling to get by, however. I recall during the previous general...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the assessable income limit for fuel allowance means test by 10% for a single person under 80, single person over 80, for a couple in circumstances in which the qualified adult is aged under 66 or a couple in which the qualified adult is aged 66 or over in tabular form. [48144/21]