Results 1-20 of 4,563 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will seek the development of a rural Garda plan to ensure the unique policing of rural areas is recognised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers waiting on outstanding ACRES payments, including the numbers in Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 335. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality what the purpose and value was of the contingent charge recorded by the Minister for Health in 1974 (Instrument T.235/74); whether this charge was ever enforced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36800/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 336. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the State funded, subsidised or insured any aspect of the operations at a location (details supplied), including buildings, care services or facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36801/25]

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I just want to clarify what I said. If my constituent's partner had died in December 2024, she would have got that payment from then on. Because he died in December 2021, she will of course be able to apply for the payment and I welcome that but she will not get it because it was in 2021 and, therefore, it is not backdated. My point is that the date should not matter, but it is going to...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I want to be associated with the case made on amendment No. 1 and I wish to speak in support of amendment No. 2, which is grouped with amendment No. 1. Amendment No. 2 proposes a report that includes the examination of estimated savings by excluding those who lost a partner before that date in January 2024. For a number of years in the House I have raised the need to extend the widows...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State for her opening statement and briefing documents and for being here this morning. Assessments of need and the workforce relate to an issue I have raised before. A pathway has been made available for people who train in England to be occupational therapists. It is typically a quicker pathway to register and be recognised by CORU when they return to Ireland....

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: On that, I have specific examples. I met a parent last Friday in my office in Ballaghaderreen. Her child got the assessment and it recommended a one-on-one SNA. The SENO also recommended that and then the school did not get the SNA. People go to the trouble of getting the assessment, which is not easy, and the assessment says X, Y or Z and then it is not provided. There is an issue there...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: The last one was on respite.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when community safety partnerships will be established; if he is aware that the delay is impacting communities where task forces on antisocial behaviour are unable to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to deliver an affordable housing scheme in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35793/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct local authorities to end the practice of including carer’s allowance as income in the differential rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35792/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether there is a need to review the processes in place for the amalgamations of second level schools; her further views whether the existing consultation process requires updating when two schools are being amalgamated; if amendments have been made to the Report on the Amalgamation of Second Level Schools published in 2001; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are specific rules in place in relation to consultation both in the locality and with past pupils in cases in which two schools are amalgamating; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received for an exemption under residential zoned land tax due to actively farmed land in County Galway and County Roscommon. [35289/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of implementing a pension scheme for foster carers registered with the State and currently providing care to foster children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Uniforms (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider removing the means test as a qualifying criteria for foster carers to access the back-to-school allowance, given the unique circumstances of the children they care for; the annual cost for all children in care to receive this allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when persons (details supplied) can expect a decision on their short-stay holiday visa appeal. [35560/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding an eviction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Care Services (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 626. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of aligning the aftercare allowance to the foster care allowance (FCA) for all foster children in the State aged 18 and to be in receipt of this until they are 23 if living in the foster home, in order to avoid foster families in receipt of the FCA to not lose €125 per week, or in some cases losing the...