Results 1-20 of 4,556 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I just want to clarify what I said. If my constituent's partner had died in December 2024, she would have got that payment from then on. Because he died in December 2021, she will of course be able to apply for the payment and I welcome that but she will not get it because it was in 2021 and, therefore, it is not backdated. My point is that the date should not matter, but it is going to...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I want to be associated with the case made on amendment No. 1 and I wish to speak in support of amendment No. 2, which is grouped with amendment No. 1. Amendment No. 2 proposes a report that includes the examination of estimated savings by excluding those who lost a partner before that date in January 2024. For a number of years in the House I have raised the need to extend the widows...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when community safety partnerships will be established; if he is aware that the delay is impacting communities where task forces on antisocial behaviour are unable to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to deliver an affordable housing scheme in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35793/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct local authorities to end the practice of including carer’s allowance as income in the differential rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35792/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether there is a need to review the processes in place for the amalgamations of second level schools; her further views whether the existing consultation process requires updating when two schools are being amalgamated; if amendments have been made to the Report on the Amalgamation of Second Level Schools published in 2001; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are specific rules in place in relation to consultation both in the locality and with past pupils in cases in which two schools are amalgamating; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received for an exemption under residential zoned land tax due to actively farmed land in County Galway and County Roscommon. [35289/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of implementing a pension scheme for foster carers registered with the State and currently providing care to foster children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Uniforms (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider removing the means test as a qualifying criteria for foster carers to access the back-to-school allowance, given the unique circumstances of the children they care for; the annual cost for all children in care to receive this allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when persons (details supplied) can expect a decision on their short-stay holiday visa appeal. [35560/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding an eviction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Care Services (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 626. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of aligning the aftercare allowance to the foster care allowance (FCA) for all foster children in the State aged 18 and to be in receipt of this until they are 23 if living in the foster home, in order to avoid foster families in receipt of the FCA to not lose €125 per week, or in some cases losing the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 657. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to extend the number of therapeutic hubs providing support to children in care across the country; whether more funding will be provided to Tusla to grow the number of therapeutic hubs and to resource them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a policy (details supplied) has been in place for Ennis and Nenagh since 17 August 2023 to protect the rapid response vehicle (RRV) and ensure where an ambulance personnel is not at work, that the advanced paramedic is not taken off the RRV and this policy is not in place in Roscommon, which is also without an emergency unit, as Ennis and Nenagh...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if a full HTA application for the drug Veoza has been submitted, and when it is anticipated the HTA will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35598/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for being here and for their opening statement. I have been looking through their annual report at some of the complaints they have received. On the complaints that are outside the office's remit, I understand some of them relate to preschool. I would like to know what is the remainder of that roughly 10%. What else is it made up of in terms of what is outside the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I will come back to some of the questions I asked that the witnesses did not have time to answer. Specifically, the fact the Ombudsman for Children's Office has no remit in terms of complaints made about private crèches and childcare providers is of concern, especially when it is getting complaints and has to say it does not have the remit to investigate them. In regard to the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: Is a legislative change required to widen the remit of the Ombudsman for Children's Office?