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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1996. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of establishing an island-specific local action group and allocating the maximum monthly LEADER funding to the group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28949/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1997. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of increasing LEADER funding by 10%. [28950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1998. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding for small-scale rural projects, such as CLÁR by 10%. [28951/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1999. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications that have been received by her Department under CLÁR funding; and the number of successful applications; and the number rejected by county in each year since 2015. [28952/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 2000. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding for rural development, regional affairs and the islands by 5%, 10% and 20%, respectively. [28953/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 2001. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding for the local improvement scheme by 10%. [28954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 2002. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of establishing a training fund of €100 per staff member for all community, rural development projects and charity sector employees. [28955/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 2018. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 785 of 17 May 2022, the reason that works cannot commence at a location (details supplied) until the final quarter of 2022; the estimated duration of the work of the conservation expert; if works will be brought forward and fast-tracked given the closure of a vital service; and if she will make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank all the witnesses for coming in this morning and for their opening statements. I have a couple of questions and the first relates to child benefit. I had a gentleman from my constituency who contacted me. He is the grandfather of four children - his daughter is their mother - and he and his wife take care of them. The daughter is having problems of her own and she does not see the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I apologise if this question has been discussed in detail. What is the position of each organisation in regard to child benefit when it comes to a private arrangement, as was mentioned, whereby a relative will take over that care? The sums are quite large if they are not going towards the raising of the child, which is what child benefit is and should be about. To help us as a committee in...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: It is very hard to go back to a carer and tell them they are on the waiting list but unfortunately there is no respite for them. I recently had to go back to a lady in her 70s who is caring for a daughter in her 40s and was looking for overnight respite that simply is not there. I am sure it is something everyone in this House has had to do and it is really difficult. She is caring for her...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Part of the Government's response to the cost-of-living crisis to date has been supports available through the local community welfare officer. However, the figures speak for themselves and we have seen a fall in the number of exceptional needs and urgent needs payments made. In the period 2016 to 2019, there were between 90,000 payments to over 100,000 payments made. Last year it was...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 122. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 905 of 21 April 2021, the intended future use of the land by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are delays in processing payments for the disability benefit following application approval; the average processing times for this payment by month as of March 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33057/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1073 of 14 June 2022, if all recipients and applicants for social welfare payments who are requested to provide additional information to her Department are provided with pre-paid postage envelopes to do so free of charge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33069/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 435. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider adding asthma to the long-term illness scheme to allow sufferers access to their inhalers which can cost up to €110 per month and other medication associated with their condition given that it is a life-long illness that must be managed by medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that young people who do not receive a vaccine (details supplied) when offered are being prevented from getting it due to the enormous cost; his views on whether cost should be a barrier to accessing a lifesaving vaccine; if, this cost will be removed for those seeking the vaccine given the level of misinformation and scaremongering when the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The Taoiseach will be aware of the thousands of organisations in our communities that are supported by and rely on the rural social scheme. Of the 2,969 participants on the scheme today, nearly half of them will be forced to leave next year should the six-year rule go ahead. This is on top of 380 current vacancies. Galway Rural Development provided us with a list of 172 organisations in...

Emergency Budget: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: When I speak on issues relating to the cost of living, issues that Sinn Féin has been raising for a long time, I usually recall the real life stories and situations that are brought to my office and those of other Sinn Féin Deputies, but the Government knows all of this, or at least it tells us it knows it all. It tells us that it knows and understands, yet still it will not act....