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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for persons that work in industries in which they have been placed on significantly reduced wages and working hours as a result of Covid-19 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26742/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that moved from the pandemic unemployment payment to short-time work support jobseeker’s benefit since March 2020 to date; and the number of persons on short-time work support jobseeker’s benefit since March 2020 to date, by month in tabular form. [26743/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been taken off short-time work support jobseeker’s benefit since March 2020 to date; and the number of persons accessing or being moved different social protection payments following after they have stopped receiving the benefit by type of payment in tabular form. [26744/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions and Considerations (Resumed): Irish Local Development Network (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank both witnesses for their presentations. I have just a couple of questions. The first relates to food poverty, which appears to be a growing issue. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was before the committee last week and its representatives flagged this as an issue that is going to grow as we emerge out of the Covid pandemic. With regard to the food banks set up by the Irish Local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions and Considerations (Resumed): Irish Local Development Network (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Last June, the Tánaiste opened the first e-mental health hub in Castlerea, County Roscommon in my constituency. It is a €2.6 million development to provide mental health services to children and young people through CAMHS Connect and, crucially, a day hospital for psychiatry of later life patients. The service was hailed at the time as having the potential to improve radically...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I want the funding released and the full services delivered.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister commit to it?

Principles of Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to go ahead. I welcome the Bill and commend an Teachta Sherlock on bringing it forward. There are some really interesting elements to the Bill and, overall, it aims to improve our social protection system. That system is quite complex and can be difficult to navigate for some people. One of the principles of the Bill is that the social...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeline for the roll-out of the Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 strategy as promised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28239/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister provide the timeline for the roll-out of the commitments made in Our Rural Future as promised?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the publication of this plan as someone who has lived in rural Ireland all of her life and who would live nowhere else. It is an ambitious plan and I acknowledge that. The difficulty is that while it is a five-year strategic plan, it is disappointing that the timelines were not there in the first place. The Minister referred to short-term and longer-term deliverables but, again,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I understood from the press conference after the launch of Our Rural Future that the list of actions to be worked on for this year was due at the end of that week or at least I believe it was said at the time that the timelines would be detailed in the next week. I acknowledge that this is an ambitious plan but I reiterate that it is disappointing there was not some timeframes built in there...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 3. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the specific measures in place to address the issue of vacant and derelict buildings in rural towns and villages; the financial supports and incentives that are in place to assist persons with renovating and revitalising buildings in these areas; her plans to improve same, as per the commitment in Our Rural Future - Rural Development...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: This question is to ask the Minister about the specific measures in place to address the issue of vacant and derelict buildings in rural towns and villages, particularly in town centres, and the financial supports and incentives in place to assist people in renovating them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister for outlining a number of schemes. Are the findings of the report on the town centre living initiative, in which there were pilot programmes in six towns, being taken into account with regard to the schemes to be introduced to improve and restore derelict buildings in towns? As the Minister knows, it cited a lack of co-ordinated national supports, difficulties for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the town centre first approach. In fairness to the town and village renewal scheme, it includes a real and excellent level of consultation with those in the communities in which the scheme is, hopefully, going to work. I want to raise an issue. Actively working against this is the town centre public realm enhancement scheme. In Ballaghaderreen, which is my home town, there are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I have permission for Deputy Paul Donnelly to take this question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Digital Hubs (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 10. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of an integrated national network of 400 remote working hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27969/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Digital Hubs (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister of State about the 400 remote working hubs to be rolled out.