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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the part-time job incentive scheme for the self-employed; if it will continue beyond the end of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update regarding the professional artists on jobseeker’s allowance; if consideration has been given to extending eligibility for the scheme to artists who are not in a union (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the delays in the processing of domiciliary care allowance applications; the average processing time for applications for the allowance from November 2021 to date; the measures her Department has put in place to reduce delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11591/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 878. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will advise the funding streams that are available for organisations which have been awarded charitable status; if she will provide information on the opening and closing dates for each in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11630/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the report issued to her by Caranua, entitled Evaluation of the impact of Caranua in providing funding supports to survivors of institutional abuse; the steps she plans to take on the back of this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an enhanced medical card identified as a need for survivors in the Caranua Report, entitled Evaluation of the impact of Caranua in providing funding supports to survivors of institutional abuse will be made available; if she is working to achieve this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to including foster carers as an eligible group as part of the recent recommendations by the Pension Commission regarding establishing a State pension for long-time carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11995/22]

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome those in the Gallery this evening, many of whom played a key role in what has become a major debate on pension age. The Minister of State will know that during the most recent general election, the people sent a very clear message to Government on pension age. While many of us might run a mile on hearing the word "pension", the pension age clearly matters to the public and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (3 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that he plans to address ongoing issues in relation to the dereliction and regeneration of derelict buildings under the Town Centre First policy particularly in relation to incentivising or penalising persons who own vacant or derelict properties but are not utilising them; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (3 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent research by an organisation (details supplied) which found that the overall poverty rate of households receiving housing subsidies rises to 19% after they have paid their rent; the steps he will take to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5330/22]

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I too commend my colleague Deputy Tully on the work she has done in bringing forward this motion. For a parent with a child who has additional needs, the battle for services and supports is constant. A parent may notice something when the child is only two or three years of age: their balance, their eye contact or their inability to do things children of the same age can do. That is just...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I too want to commend the Labour Party on bringing forward this motion. I cannot stress enough the importance of remote working to our rural towns and villages. While it is hard to see anything positive in relation to Covid, it has been life-changing for rural Ireland in allowing people to work from home, to reduce commute times and to remain in their communities, which is of huge benefit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank all the witnesses for being here this morning and I thank Ms Moran for her opening statement. I wish to follow up particularly on housing. I am aware of the requirement to demonstrate a local need with planning applications. When people get to the stage of applying for planning permission, what are the factors leading to refusal in the first instance? I welcome the work that UCC...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: When people are putting in a planning application, is local need an issue, as it has been in our area? If not, what are the barriers when people go for planning permission? Why are people being refused, or is it that people are not going for planning permission in many cases?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 15 February 2022, the members of the survivor-led consultative forum; the person that chairs this forum; when it was established; the terms of reference; the regularity with which it meets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date from which recipients of the fuel allowance will receive the additional payment €125; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12937/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister said earlier that it is so important that we make a difference. I agree with him, but what does his difference look like? What does the difference that he is bringing forward today look like? We know that it currently costs well over €1,000 to fill a tank of oil, and that cost is rising. There is nothing that the Minister has announced today that will make a difference...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the cost of household energy is spiralling, with more than 30 different price increase announcements from Irish energy suppliers over the past year; — costs have risen by around €500 for an average household, with energy suppliers announcing further rises next month; — home heating oil has increased in price...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I am at a loss to know how the Government's response to what it calls an energy crisis can be described as comprehensive. The main issue being debated and that has been raised by those who have spoken is household heating costs. The Minister said that the Opposition would not be content no matter what Government proposal is brought forward, but there is no proposal regarding household...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to an issue (details supplied) in relation to the legislation regarding the liable relatives unit and the significant challenges it presents to lone parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14850/22]