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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Live Register (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who moved from jobseeker’s transitional payment each year between the years 2013 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the locations that they transferred to, for example, jobseeker’s allowance, other specific social welfare payments, particular education and training schemes, employment and so on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 666. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers whose existing forestry is affected by ash dieback can access compensation or other financial support under the reconstitution and underplanting scheme; if he intends to support these farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61786/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the development of a rural-proofing mechanism, as outlined in ‘Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62447/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister for an update on the development of a rural-proofing mechanism.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister very much. It is of course important that we get this model right. The work that has been done to date is welcome. Looking at the international perspective allows us to take the best bits, to look at the challenges faced where rural-proofing models are in place and to make sure that we develop the best model possible to ensure that our rural communities are not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I urge that the model be put in place as quickly as possible. I appreciate that much work has been done and that it is important to get this right. It is welcome that the Minister is ensuring that this is being brought forward, because it is extremely important. We have seen the consequences of the failure to not look through this rural lens in respect of the north and north west, which is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 8. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has engaged with representatives from island communities regarding the establishment of an island-specific local action group under the LEADER programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62465/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister will be aware that islanders and their representatives, including Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann, have been seeking a specific stand-alone subregional area for the islands when it comes to LEADER. What engagement, if any, has the Minister's Department had? Deputy Connolly referenced the presentation here last month by islanders and their representative bodies to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Clearly, the Minister's Department engaged but, unfortunately, it did not listen. One only has to look at the spending on LEADER and the difference it made to the development of the islands when there was a specific local action group, LAG, in the period 2007 to 2013. More than €527,000 was spent on Mayo islands in that period compared to €129,000 in the last round of LEADER....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 11. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the towns first policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62464/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister of State for an update of the roll-out of the town centres first policy. Will he provide an update on it? I understand it has 33 actions. Will he tell us about the recruitment for town regeneration offices across our local authorities?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Those town regeneration officers are going to the critical to the roll-out of this policy and will have a key role in ensuring all actions are implemented. Due to their being based in their own areas through the local authorities, they will have good knowledge of the situation on the ground and the towns in question. Is there a timeline for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome that funding. This is an important policy, especially for towns in rural areas that really suffered after the 2008 crash and throughout that period. In many cases they are yet to recover from that. There is much vacancy and dereliction across many rural towns and I have no doubt this policy, once implemented fully, will make a difference but putting those regeneration officers in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Offshore Islands (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: It is still not clear to me why the decision was made that the islands would not be afforded that specific stand-alone subregional area status, although I appreciate it was considered. In 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the special situation of islands. Through EU policy, islands are to be treated as distinct territories. That seems to be totally against what the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I have been contacted by a mother in Roscommon whose child requires occupational therapy and speech and language therapy but is not receiving it. In her email she said it is one year since the provision of services transferred from the Brothers of Charity to the HSE. During this year the situation has been intolerable for her family, with having to beg at ministerial level for services. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank Dr. Bambrick for her opening statement. I agree with the point she made about reducing the lower age limit from 23 to 16 years. Would she foresee moves in relation to the upper limit of 60 years? Given that pension age is now 66, and who knows where it may go, the upper limit of 60 is slightly questionable. It is important that people can trust this scheme given that more and more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 30. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the islands strategy; when the strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62463/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 44. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on funding allocations for men’s and women’s sheds from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62467/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 64. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the steps that have been taken to address the backlog of applications in the local improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62466/22]