Results 2,001-2,020 of 4,409 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

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

Claire Kerrane: 634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department expects to announce the successful applications for the recent employment services tender considering the expected timeframe is overdue and current providers will have a very short timeframe to wind down if unsuccessful in their application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37764/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending child benefit to 18-year-olds who are still in secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37106/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending child benefit to 18-year-olds who are still in secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37141/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients by each core social protection scheme, disaggregated by payment type. [37150/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reintroducing the State pension transition payment at the weekly standard state pension rate of €253.30; and the estimated full-year cost of increasing this payment rate by €1. [37153/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 19 May 2022, the estimated cost of including the working family payment as a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance for the period 30 September to 31 December 2022, 12 October to 31 December 2022 and from 21 January 2023 and for the fuel allowance season 2023 by period, in...

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

Claire Kerrane: 640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of including the working family payment as a qualifying payment for fuel allowance for the period from 30 September 2022, 12 October 2022 and 21 January 2023, in tabular form. [37790/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if with regard to Covid 19 enhanced illness benefit a positive Covid-19 test is still sufficient to prove that a person has been diagnosed with Covid-19; if not, if a doctor’s note is now required in all cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37752/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of fuel allowance applicants in 2020, 2021 and 2022, who were €100 or less over the qualifying means test threshold, who were €250 or less over the qualifying means test threshold, who were €500 or less over the qualifying means test threshold or who were €1,000 or less over the...

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

Claire Kerrane: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise with regard to the forthcoming changes to national employment services how and when the termination of existing contracts will be communicated to clients accessing current services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37765/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise with regard to the forthcoming changes to national employment services the advice or supports that are in place to support existing providers with forecasting expected expenditure in advance of the termination of current contracts on 31 August 2022; if an extension can be put in place until end of year...

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

Claire Kerrane: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a process in place with regard to the forthcoming changes to national employment services for Local Employment Service clients wishing to avail of training funding for courses which are not completed before the end of August 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37767/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm with regard to the forthcoming changes to national employment services if INTREO staff will process back to education allowance applications for Local Employment Service and Job Club clients from August and September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37768/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department intends to support the transfer clients from Local Employment Service and Job Club caseloads to INTREO; if she will advise the resources that are currently in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37769/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing each social welfare payment by €1 disaggregated by payment type from 27 September to 31 December 2022 and from 1 January to 31 December 2023. [38099/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing core social protection payments to meet the minimum essential standard of living disaggregated by payment type for the period 27 September to 31 December 2022 and for the period from 21 January to 31 December 2023. [38100/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the qualified child increase payment rate by €1 for children under 12 years of age and over 12 years of age respectively for the period 27 September to 31 December 2022 and for the period from 21 January to 31 December 2023. [38101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (13 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the National Broadband Plan targets were similar to those that his Department initially sought in comparison with the number of residences passed in an area (details supplied); the reason for the delays; the rationale for an organisation moving forward with seven other deployment areas ahead of the area specified;...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (13 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current staffing levels of an organisation (details supplied) and the impact that this is having on target delivery, particularly with regard to broadband delivery targets in County Roscommon; the action that the organisation is taking to ensure that it has appropriate staffing levels to meet targets; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any flexibility will be provided for post-primary children seeking to avail of subsidised school transport services in certain circumstances, such as in the case of a person who lives 4.6 km from their school while the guidelines state 4.8 km proximity from the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38161/22]