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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Unemployment Payment Scheme: Department of Social Protection (25 Nov 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I thank Mr. Hession for his opening statement. I would like to ask a couple of questions arising from the statement and the briefing document. The initial rate of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment was €203. It quickly moved to €350. Would it be fair to say that it was acknowledged that a worker who had lost his or her job could not live on €203, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Unemployment Payment Scheme: Department of Social Protection (25 Nov 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Returning to the online application form, I appreciate that our guests said there was a very low take-up, which is fine. I have found, however, as I am sure many Deputies and Senators have, that people have contacted us wanting to apply for the PUP but could not do so online, whether because of a lack of broadband or because they just could not do it, which is fair enough. We would print...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Unemployment Payment Scheme: Department of Social Protection (25 Nov 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I support what Senator Garvey has said. I appreciate that it might be in people's interest to apply online but I still do not understand why the form cannot be made available. Not everyone can send an email seeking the form and as some people cannot even work a computer, a hard copy should be an option. In the case of those who had been in receipt of the PUP previously and who had...

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister will know well that there is not a country in the world that moves retiring workers onto a jobseeker's payment and which treats them as someone who is unemployed. Since 2014, more than 35,000 65-year-olds have been forced onto a jobseeker's payment at retirement. Not only did Fine Gael and the Labour Party abolish the State pension transition payment provided to 65-year-olds at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school build (details supplied); the stage the process is at; the time frame for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39978/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit (1 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to persons being denied carer’s benefit as they do not meet the requirement of having worked the necessary number of weeks in the last 26 weeks due to their employment being impacted by Covid-19; if allowances will be made in order that Covid-19 does not impact persons applying for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €250 support payment to students will be made to those who had to return to college in order to carry out placements (details supplied) that were delayed due to Covid-19 in which they have returned but have not had to pay fees; if this payment will cover those students who had to return to college due to Covid-19 disrupting their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent paramedic emergency medical technicians assigned to Merlin Park; and the date staff were assigned. [40027/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 708. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent paramedic emergency medical technicians assigned to Counties Roscommon and Galway; and the date staff were assigned. [40028/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (1 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the reason mental illness is listed as only for those under 16 years of age to qualify for the long-term illness scheme; if he will consider removing the age limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40457/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (2 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered making the pandemic unemployment payment a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance or allowing time spent on it to be counted towards the 15-month requirement for jobseeker’s to qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40595/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. One thing we can all agree on is how positive it is to see the Department moving so quickly regarding remote working facilities. If any positive is to come out of Covid-19, it is that work-life balance may be made much easier for people, such as in saving on commutes etc.. Most positive of all, is the sight of people moving out of Dublin and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: There is no heading. It concerns the hubs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: The blue area on the map represented the hubs and the red area signified the BCPs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Does that map represent what is there or what will be there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Regarding the BCPs, how many have been rolled out to date? On the remote working hubs, I visited the one on Arranmore Island. It is obviously important that these remote working facilities are just as available on the islands as the mainland. Are there plans for additional remote working hubs on the islands or is there an update on the roll-out for people living on our islands? There was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which her Department is monitoring the requirement for persons who qualify for the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, to be genuinely seeking work; the way in which persons are expected to meet this requirement; if there are plans for PUP recipients to engage with job activation measures; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: How is the Department monitoring the new requirement that those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and those applying for it must be genuinely seeking work? How are people expected to meet this requirement? Are there plans for recipients to engage with job activation now or in the new year?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I appreciate the jobseeker requirement but there is a big difference between being available to work and genuinely actively seeking work. While the Minister has said the rule is there, and a number of us sought to remove it through an amendment in August and July when the legislation was going through, at present the Department does not require PUP recipients to be genuinely seeking work....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Among the rules to qualify for the PUP is that people are genuinely seeking work but that is only being enforced if people are offered their jobs back and they do not take them up, which I could not imagine anybody doing anyway. These are workers and some of them have never been on social welfare in their lives. The rule on genuinely seeking work as part of the initial criteria will only be...