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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the rules that are in place concerning costs under the fair deal scheme after the person has been in nursing care for three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that are in the mental health unit at Roscommon County Hospital; if there is a waiting list; the extent of same; the average time spent by a person on the waiting list; the current staffing levels in the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49537/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the report of the child maintenance review group will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50416/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The purpose of this question is to ask the Minister for an update on the report completed by the child maintenance review group, which, I understand, was furnished to her at Easter. Perhaps she might be able to tell us a little about that report, what stage it is at and when it will be published.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: As the Minister stated, lone-parent families are in deep poverty. They show very high levels across the board, from at risk of poverty to risk of deprivation, living in deprivation and experiencing deprivation. The consistent poverty rate remains far too high. It is much higher than it should be in any case. The Minister will also know lone parent organisations, both One Family and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The report is done. The Minister has had since April to consider it. I believe that she will move on it. I welcome that. However, it would be good if we all, especially the organisations involved, could see the report because up until now - and certainly up until the group was established in 2020 - there has not been that sense of urgency around child maintenance and the establishment of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the processing of additional needs payment applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50417/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister provide an update on the processing of additional needs payments? These are very important in the midst of the cost-of-living crisis. I presume demand will increase and I am sure the Department expects demand to increase further as we come into the winter period.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I am glad to hear the online option is been progressed. This will be important. It is something I have raised with the Minister previously. It would be welcome because it may allow a person to ensure every bit of information is uploaded and provided before an application is submitted. There would then not be an over and back between the Department and the applicant. In September I was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: To be fair, I do not think that is very fair. What I wanted to see was the ramping up of those supports to ensure that people knew they were there in order to access them. Of course, if numbers were low earlier in the year, such as in February and March when they were between 4,000 or 5,000, there was concern. The Department did all that work on advertising and campaigning. That is what I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department will ensure that social welfare payment rates are adequate and that the social protection system protects persons from poverty considering the announcement of a €12 increase to the weekly core payment rates in budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50411/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I refer to the €12 increases, which will kick in in January for all social welfare rates across the board and in light of that its inadequacy, based on the minimum essential standard of living that I have raised with the Minister many times.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I wish we could see a commitment from the Government to get to the minimum essential standard of living, MESL, rather than the haggling we heard just before the budget over whether it might be €10 or €15 or might fall in the middle. We need and should be moving towards providing certainty to social welfare recipients to go to the MESL.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review means testing for the carer’s allowance including a review of the removal of means testing requirements to qualify for these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50414/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a State pension solution for long-term family carers given her commitment to providing a solution but no inclusion of such a measure in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on work underway in her Department examining long-term disability income supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (13 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her plans regarding recognising the additional cost of disability; the way that she intends to ensure that this additional cost is reflected within the social protection system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50415/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (12 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 5 October 2022, if she will confirm that the removal of the long-term requirement will also mean that recipients of illness benefit will qualify for the cost-of-living support payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50463/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (12 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a fee reduction can be made available to part-time students given the announcement of a €1,000 fee reduction for undergraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50394/22]

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Minister began his contribution by saying that nobody in this House had a monopoly on caring. Surely, if this Government cared, the one most basic thing it would do is to ensure that a ban on disconnections is introduced in the State as a very basic measure to show that this Government cares as people face into an unprecedented winter...