Results 601-620 of 4,407 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current special needs assistant and special education teacher to student ratio. [11525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide further information on the scheduled reopening of schools particularly with regard to supports and advice for high-risk staff and ventilation within school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12061/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if freelance workers can qualify for the pandemic unemployment payment if they were not at work for the relevant weeks of their application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10982/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who have more than one job and lose one of their sources of income as a result of Covid-19 can be eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment; the supports available to persons in this situation who have seen their income drop sharply but remain in some part-time employment; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent to date on the pandemic unemployment payment; the breakdown of monthly spending on the payment since March 2020; and the number of recipients across each payment rate since March 2020, per month. [11288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of pandemic unemployment payment recipients since March 2020, by month; and the number of pandemic unemployment payment claim closures since March 2020, by month, employment and sector, in tabular form. [11289/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is room for flexibility with the back-to-education allowance in circumstances in which an application rejection results in serious financial difficulties for those pursuing further education, in particular a student (details supplied) whose application for the allowance was rejected after the academic year had...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children currently deemed as living in poverty in Ireland. [11518/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of current recipients of rent supplement; and the number of recipients of rent supplement in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [11520/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Human Rights (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current definition of the minimum essential standard of living in Ireland. [11534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the working family payment; the number of recipients of the working family payment, by month, since January 2020; and the number of applications for the working family payment since January 2020, in tabular form. [11535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if time lost by participants on community employment schemes and Tús due to Covid-19 will be given back to them with additional time on schemes; if she will consider same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considered waiving the qualifying period for those on jobseeker’s when applying for the back to education allowance as has been done with the pandemic unemployment payment to allow for flexibility in supporting jobseekers, especially young jobseekers in circumstances in which they may not have the qualifying...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available from her Department for persons who have had to leave their homes due to flooding; the way such assistance can be obtained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11795/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason application forms for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds are not available online in order that persons can easily access a form to be sent by post for 65-year-olds who cannot apply online; the reason this process is complicated by having to send an email to request a form; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending child benefit past the age of 18 years for children who remain in education in recognition of families who may struggle to cover the cost of school clothing for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12025/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 591. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the impact of the loss of family supports, community supports and voluntary community supports that cannot be put in place due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11538/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Foster Care (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 592. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young persons due to age out of foster care and who are at risk of living in poverty or becoming homeless; the supports in place for young persons at risk of poverty of homelessness on leaving foster care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11540/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 744. To ask the Minister for Health if the current Covid-19 vaccination allocation groupings will be reassessed to prioritise those who have serious medical concerns; if a reconfiguration of the vaccination roll-out will consider those who have medical conditions that require them to undergo treatments or urgent procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11109/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 851. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting times for child and adolescent mental health services and speech and language therapy disability services; if he will provide the average waiting times for these services from January 2020 to date by month in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11523/21]