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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans to regulate the home care sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by home care workers as regards mileage costs for travelling as part of their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that she has taken to make it easier to recruit home care workers into the sector in order to reduce the current waiting lists. [15609/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans to provide domestic violence refuge space in County Roscommon given that it is one of the nine counties without these spaces at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16222/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of each social insurance and social assistance payment in 2021, in tabular form; the total amount paid for each payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing an additional two week parent’s leave and benefit; the cost of increasing the leave and benefit from five to seven weeks per child as scheduled from August 2022; and the estimated cost of increasing the leave and benefit from seven to eight weeks in tabular form. [15800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending social welfare eligibility to stamp 1 visa holders, particularly in cases of serious illness or emergency access to schemes such as the supplementary welfare allowance considering the recent focus on migration and need to ensure supports for refugees; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on community employment schemes are required to meet the qualifying period of 390 days in receipt of the jobseeker’s allowance in order to qualify for the fuel allowance before they enter community employment given that those referred to community employment by her Department are obliged to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing exemptions for specific types of savings within means testing for carer’s allowance such as cases (details supplied) and in consideration of forthcoming changes to capital thresholds later in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16555/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (30 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending social welfare supports to retired civil servants who have received their occupational pensions in place of a standard State pension, such as the living alone allowance in cases in which there are requirements to be in receipt of a primary social welfare payment; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that edited minutes of Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland board meetings have not been publicly available since January 2021 in view of commitments to publish minutes following the publication of the Crowe Howarth report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16881/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if the current organisational structure chart for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland will be provided; if it will include numbers of all staff working in each directorate by tenure, that is, permanent, consultant, contract, agency or other; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16882/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (30 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a report on a protected disclosure has not yet been finalised (details supplied); when the report with findings will be made available relating to this protected disclosure from the outsourced investigator; if he will provide all costings accrued to date relating to this protected disclosure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16883/22]

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2022: First Stage (31 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I am glad to introduce this Bill with my colleague. This legislation has passed Second Stage in this House unanimously twice. It was passed in the previous Dáil and the one before that, but here we are again. Despite obvious support in this House and among the public for a long time, nothing has been done to make this happen. This is about giving workers a choice when it comes to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (31 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the payment rules for the training support grant; if consideration has been given to providing reimbursement for courses which have been completed and paid for by the participant given that many training courses require payment before the course is completed; and if she will make a statement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (5 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 68. 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, considering she previously advised that consultants would provide their recommendations by the end of March 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17896/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (5 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I raise the rural-proofing mechanism or model that was committed to in Our Rural Future, which is a very important and practical tool that is needed to ensure our rural communities are considered when it comes to policies across government. Can the Minister give us an update on that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (5 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister for that update. Did she receive an initial draft of that report? If so, has she gone through it? She said the final draft that will follow is imminent. What does she expect the next steps will be? This will be an important piece of Our Rural Future and an important mechanism going forward when it comes to policies right across government as, before they are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (5 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: It is welcome that things are moving with the rural-proofing model. It will be important moving forward as many people are now moving back to rural communities. In my area, there is an increase in the population that I have not seen in my lifetime. We need to make sure everything that can be done is done in order that people moving back to rural areas, or moving into rural communities, are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (5 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 70. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the engagement by her Department regarding the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; the role her Department will play in responding to the crisis at Governmental level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17897/22]