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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on engagement from her Department with community employment supervisors regarding their employment-related concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on her Department's review of means testing for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15043/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the consultation process as part of her Department’s work on addressing the cost of disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15041/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Office of Public Works (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding is available from the OPW to repair a bridge (details supplied) considering it is a key heritage, cultural, tourism and meeting point for the village; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15343/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the dates in April that the announced spring bonus payments are due to be paid to eligible social welfare recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15463/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the school transport scheme will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14194/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review of the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14193/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Payments (23 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the impact that small social welfare increases have on rent costs for local authority tenants under the differential rent scheme given that vulnerable tenants, including those on disability allowance and the State pension, are seeing an increase in their payment being eaten up by an increase in rent,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I have been contacted by staff in EmployAbility services throughout the State who are worried about the upcoming tendering out of their services. This is due to be published in April. The Taoiseach will know EmployAbility services are unique because they support people with disabilities and long-term illness into employment. There are genuine fears among staff regarding possible changes to...

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. I commend Deputy Harkin and the Independent Group on bringing forward this really important motion. As the Minister will know, the need to review carer's allowance is an issue I have raised many times. From listening to the discussion this morning, however, the issue is clearly much broader than that. There is a clear need to put a plan...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if training has been provided to gardaí with regard to new stalking legislation; if he will advise the measures that have been introduced to facilitate gardaí with providing supports regarding stalking and harassment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14172/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 351. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding is available from the OPW to repair a bridge (details supplied), considering it is a key heritage, cultural and tourism point and meeting point for the village; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on when a standardised approach to the calculation of rents for local authority tenants will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12328/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason recipients of the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension, set at the same rate as the State pension (contributory) is not allowable as income to qualify for the tenant purchase scheme when this is a long-term payment where the State pension (non-contributory) pension, which can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider funding a proposal by a school (details supplied) on a pilot basis which would see English speaking schools twinned with Gaeilscoils, including those on the islands for pen paling, visiting and improving Irish speaking among children in English speaking schools, as the most effective way for them to learn the language; and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 2 March 2023, the reason a person seeking to change their name in circumstances other than in cases where they wish to revert to their pre-marriage name, must show two years' usage of their new name; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1226. To ask the Minister for Health the process that is in place to ensure frontline employees who worked in private nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic can receive their recognition payment, particularly in cases where a person is no longer working for the same employer and has not yet received their bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12561/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the budget available to meals on wheels providers in recognition of increased running costs to providers to ensure this vital service can be continued to our most vulnerable and isolated citizens. [13213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests made to the HSE for a meals on wheels service for individuals via the public health nurses in 2022, the number of these approved, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13214/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (21 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1382. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that meals on wheels providers are seeing more and more people being refused a subsidised service when sought from the HSE; the reason this service is being denied when sought by public health nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13215/23]