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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Those town regeneration officers are going to the critical to the roll-out of this policy and will have a key role in ensuring all actions are implemented. Due to their being based in their own areas through the local authorities, they will have good knowledge of the situation on the ground and the towns in question. Is there a timeline for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome that funding. This is an important policy, especially for towns in rural areas that really suffered after the 2008 crash and throughout that period. In many cases they are yet to recover from that. There is much vacancy and dereliction across many rural towns and I have no doubt this policy, once implemented fully, will make a difference but putting those regeneration officers in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 11. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the towns first policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62464/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister of State for an update of the roll-out of the town centres first policy. Will he provide an update on it? I understand it has 33 actions. Will he tell us about the recruitment for town regeneration offices across our local authorities?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 8. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has engaged with representatives from island communities regarding the establishment of an island-specific local action group under the LEADER programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62465/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister will be aware that islanders and their representatives, including Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann, have been seeking a specific stand-alone subregional area for the islands when it comes to LEADER. What engagement, if any, has the Minister's Department had? Deputy Connolly referenced the presentation here last month by islanders and their representative bodies to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Clearly, the Minister's Department engaged but, unfortunately, it did not listen. One only has to look at the spending on LEADER and the difference it made to the development of the islands when there was a specific local action group, LAG, in the period 2007 to 2013. More than €527,000 was spent on Mayo islands in that period compared to €129,000 in the last round of LEADER....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I urge that the model be put in place as quickly as possible. I appreciate that much work has been done and that it is important to get this right. It is welcome that the Minister is ensuring that this is being brought forward, because it is extremely important. We have seen the consequences of the failure to not look through this rural lens in respect of the north and north west, which is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1. 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’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62447/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister for an update on the development of a rural-proofing mechanism.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister very much. It is of course important that we get this model right. The work that has been done to date is welcome. Looking at the international perspective allows us to take the best bits, to look at the challenges faced where rural-proofing models are in place and to make sure that we develop the best model possible to ensure that our rural communities are not...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 30. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the islands strategy; when the strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62463/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 44. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on funding allocations for men’s and women’s sheds from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62467/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 64. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the steps that have been taken to address the backlog of applications in the local improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62466/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and for their opening statement. I want to come back to the issue of a lower entry age. This has been raised in a number of submissions we have received. I understand that many people who go to secondary school and college might do a bit of part-time work here and there and it fluctuates. I understand all of this. The other side of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Would Ireland have the highest age at 23?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank Mr. Hession for coming before the committee. A number of us have been raising issues around the additional needs payments and community welfare officers, CWOs, in particular access to CWOs, for some time now. We do not raise these issues for the fun of it but because constituents are coming to us. They are facing difficulties with the wait time for additional needs payments and due...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: It is quite frustrating that the witnesses do not seem to acknowledge that CWOs have been removed from the community. We have all said it. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has raised issues regarding accessibility and its staff take 2,000 calls for assistance per week. We are not all wrong and there is an issue. The witnesses have repeatedly referred to the phone. What about people who...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the cost to households has been considered as part of the new deposit return scheme in cases in which a person will pay an additional cost for plastics and cans while also paying for household waste collection which is increasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61787/22]