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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Yesterday, researchers from NUI Galway launched the 2022 edition of the local authority finances website. It shows that Galway County Council has a budget of under €144 million for this year, which is equivalent of €802 per person in Galway. If you look at the counties surrounding Galway, you can see that Mayo has a budget of the equivalent of €1,256 per person, Clare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the one-parent family payment scheme age cut-off to 14 years of age. [36494/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients of the benefit for those over 65 years; the full year cost of this scheme to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the weekly payment rate for the carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit to €325 per week; and if she will provide this information in tabular form by payment. [36496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process of securing an oral hearing for social welfare appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the intended changes to the appeals process from a Departmental organisation perspective; the way that the social welfare appeals office fits into these structures alongside her Department overall; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to the allocation of additional refuge spaces in counties Roscommon and Galway given the recent transfer of responsibility for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence service delivery to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35743/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by older people with accounts with a bank (details supplied) who have to find alternative banking and have no photographic identification, passport or driver's licence, which many in their 80s and 90s, in particular, do not have; if provision will be made for these citizens; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to extend the provision of the hot school meals scheme to continue beyond term time in 2022 and throughout the summer months, as it did for the previous academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35271/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of maternity benefit and paternity benefit who also received another means tested social protection payment from 2019 to date; if she will advise on these figures as an overall percentage by payment type and year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35295/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The programme for Government commits to a pensions solution for carers. The Taoiseach will know that the Commission on Pensions in its report put forward a number of recommendations as to how that can be done. While I appreciate there are different views on the pension age, there should be no delay in providing a full State pension to family carers, and that needs to include foster carers....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department's economic policy unit. [34618/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the ending of many local employment services and job clubs throughout the State. The Taoiseach knows there was a commitment in the programme for Government to increase the availability of activation services. It specifically stated it would include those run by local employment services. Unfortunately since then, as the Taoiseach knows, there has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to extending timetables and the availability of tracks for the Westport to Dublin Heuston service particularly regarding the provision of additional train services between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays and the need to ensure sufficient carriages for train services that currently run; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to ensuring safety in entering and exiting the area outside Roscommon train station in view of the fact that the exit is dangerous due to traffic at the station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37941/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 361. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding supports that are available to Irish elite amateur kickboxers considering the cost of travel, training and equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37330/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to disregarding grant and project-based funding as means-tested income for the disability allowance and the blind pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a child who is in receipt of the disability allowance and who is still in full-time secondary education will qualify for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance given that children will likely not be considered for qualified child increase through their parents if they are in receipt of disability allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that her Department received for disability-related social welfare payments in 2021 and 2022; the number that were successful; the number that were eligible based on medical grounds but were refused based on means testing requirements; and application outcome in tabular form by year. [37029/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional €10 per week payment to all recipients of disability-related social welfare payments by payment type and as a total in tabular form. [37030/22]