Results 3,821-3,840 of 4,411 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider establishing a driver test centre in a location (details supplied), given the backlog for tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9623/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to ensure the timely transition of tax credits for persons who were previously in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and have now returned to employment; the timeline his Department is working to in order to address these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9406/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the action being taken to ensure persons who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and have now returned to employment are not overpaying tax as a result of delays regarding the transition of tax credits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9407/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if substitute teachers will be able to avail of pay scale increments which have been delayed as a result of recent school closures; if her attention has been drawn to the significant impact these increment delays have for substitute teachers with regard to wages and panel rights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the most recent timeline regarding the introduction of the additional three weeks of parental leave; when parents can expect to avail of this crucial support which was announced in October 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9555/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons awarded the supplementary welfare allowance in 2019; the number of applications submitted by county in 2019; and the purposes for which funding was allocated. [9482/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the time allowed on the back to work enterprise allowance will be extended for current participants given that they have been unable to avail of the advantages of the scheme due to Covid-19 and have therefore lost out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10520/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of on-site inspections by social welfare inspectors at construction sites in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the information sought during such inspections; if compliance with sectoral employment orders is checked; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9742/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of grades within her Department from service officers up to and including secretary general by age range and gender. [10235/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of investigations into employment status and false employment carried out by social welfare inspectors in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the sectors concerned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10261/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the means test threshold for entitlement to carer's allowance in €50 intervals up to €950 per week; and the estimated number of additional recipients in tabular form. [10350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when those awaiting pandemic unemployment payment arrears as a result of a recent information technology issue can expect to receive their payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10432/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the childcare supports in place for front-line hospital staff, including for children who are of primary school age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10257/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of knives seized by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2018 to 2020, by Garda division. [9398/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 797. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce additional vaccination centres for counties Galway and Roscommon; the process for determining the number of vaccination centres per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 815. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 989. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider allowing an increase in the number of persons who can attend funerals from 10 to 25. [10248/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications for those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, who return to work in 2021 with regard to tax credits and standard rate cut-off points; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9176/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (18 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the listed certifying professional organisations beyond a union (details supplied) in order to allow musicians represented by organisations to ensure that access to the social welfare scheme for professional artists on jobseeker schemes is not restricted to the union; and if she will make a statement on...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Like others, I want to ask the Minister about the ongoing crisis facing our beef farmers. I would like him to provide some detail on the outcomes from the beef task force to date. I know it first met in December 2019. What has been achieved to date for beef farmers through that forum because there appears to have been no progress on the two main issues that beef farmers have repeatedly...