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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Just 1,300 payments have been made or are in the process of being made under the mother and baby homes redress scheme. That is out of 34,000 people who are eligible, not to mention the 24,000 who have been left out of the scheme. Today, I was made aware of a 91-year-old woman who is still waiting. She applied in March. The scheme has been open for six months. Older people were supposed...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: ...not interested in that kind of politicking. I do not do it. I do not believe that the parents are interested in it either. The Minister sees our plan as having no vision. Our plan has a vision and is the actual way to get to €10 per day. If we strip everything out of it, the fact is that we are spending €1.2 billion of taxpayers' money, and those taxpayers are still...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1447.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason he will contest the legal challenge that will be initiated by those excluded from the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1442.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1443.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of pending applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme who have not yet received their payment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1444.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting time for applicants to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme to receive payment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1445.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason why applicants to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are facing long waiting times in receiving payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34799/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1446.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason applicants to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are facing long waiting times for responses to their queries on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1463.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason case workers for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are withholding information from survivors who are enquiring on the status of the payment that they are entitled to; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35099/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (9 Sep 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 1464.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps and full process involved in the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; specifically, each step undertaken from the initial application made by a survivor, up until they receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35100/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (25 Jun 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 332. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will allow maternity leave and benefit to commence at the discretion of the mother in cases where the mother has had her baby during cancer treatment to allow her to choose when her maternity leave and benefit begins, allowing her that time with her newborn rather than have that time taken and lost to her...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Report on Parental Bereavement Leave and Benefit 10.The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the introduction of Parental Bereavement Leave and Benefit for parents who lose a child under the age of 18 and explore the establishment of a statutory...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome this legislation and, in particular, the long-awaited increase of three weeks per parent of parent's leave and benefit. I will take this opportunity to acknowledge and commend the work of the Extend Maternity Leave campaign group, which has fought hard for additional supports for parents, in particular new ones, since Covid hit this time last year. When debating this legislation,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Before the recess, I tabled a motion calling on the Government to extend maternity leave for mothers who had babies during the pandemic, a challenging and difficult time. The Government's amendment stated that it would possibly look at extending parental leave and benefit in the next budget at some unknown time next year, a proposal totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. Earlier this...

Maternity Leave Benefit Extension: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I find the Government's amendment deeply insulting and I know I will not be the only one to find it so. I am glad the Minister read the entire amendment into the Dáil record because one would need to read it more than once to believe it. I will first comment on a number of statements made by the Minister in her speech. She initially acknowledged the "strange and stressful few months"...

Maternity Leave Benefit Extension: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: notes that due to the public health emergency, parents of young babies find themselves facing particular challenges, and that there is an added difficulty in securing childcare for new children; acknowledges: —the #ExtendMaternityLeave2020 campaign established by mothers currently on maternity leave; —the National...