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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (17 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the interdepartmental group set up within her Department to examine the remote working hubs and co-working spaces; when the group is due to report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43917/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (17 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new guidelines regarding wind energy will be finalised and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44285/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gas Networks Ireland (17 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a representation (details supplied) being considered by him; when payment will be made if it is already agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44336/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who are currently engaged with the JobPath scheme. [44348/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (17 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to the local employment service in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [44502/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (17 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons engaged with the local employment service in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [44503/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (16 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Castlerea fire station, County Roscommon, was closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44090/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (16 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the free travel scheme to allow persons with a disability to travel by taxi given the lack of access to public transport, specifically wheelchair-accessible public transport in rural areas; the estimated cost of extending the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43638/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to an anomaly arising whereby those on the pandemic unemployment payment were advised to move onto a jobseeker’s payment in order that they could qualify for a payment in respect of their children, for example, and who now do not have the same flexibility to earn and retain the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit (16 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the enhanced illness benefit payment is available to persons who have been advised by their general practitioner to restrict their movements and in circumstances in which their employer has sent them home from work as per the guidelines on the website gov.ie (details supplied); if this rule is being followed by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (16 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I thank both witnesses for their presentations and for the documentation they have made available to us. I will not bother asking about the acceleration. It is important but, clearly, they are not in a position at this stage of the process to answer. Nevertheless, given that there is a commitment in the programme for Government, people naturally want to see it happen. Covid has had a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 697 of 1 December 2020, if students who had to return to college in order to carry out placements (details supplied) which were cancelled due to Covid-19 and have not had to pay fees for 2020 are included in the small number of cases in which alternative arrangements will be made for the payment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial support will be given to a person (details supplied) in the high-risk category for Covid-19 who is taking part in an online masters degree course and has been refused a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43558/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to make the drug dupilumab available to those living with severe atopic eczema; the timeframe for its roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43575/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce the current 63 week wait for audiology in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42511/20]

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 9, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on the effectiveness of the JobPath scheme 18. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the effectiveness of the JobPath scheme and the impact it is having on the sustainability of other job activation schemes and that the report shall be presented...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister has stated that not everyone is going to JobPath, but more people are being referred to it than to any other scheme. That has been the case for a number of years. Regarding the more than 280,000 people who have been referred, the success rate where a job is sustained for longer than 52 weeks is 7%. I welcome the Minister's acknowledgement that the referral fee of €311 is...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 8: In page 9, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on income limits for Carer’s Allowance 18. The Minister shall carry out a review on the income limits for Carer’s Allowance and explore the expansion of the income limit to allow for those on average industrial incomes to qualify for the payment and that the report shall be...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 7: In page 9, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: "Report on the effectiveness and adequacy of the Fuel Allowance 18. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the effectiveness, adequacy, coverage and eligibility of the Fuel Allowance Scheme in addressing the heating requirements of households experiencing energy...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. I had a similar amendment which was correctly ruled out of order on foot of the cost to the Exchequer. I fully understand the ruling in that regard. Would the Minister consider paying half of the payment in January? As to listening to the stakeholders and carers themselves, the amendment I had put forward that it would be paid in two halves...