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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people who sourced employment while on JobPath and in tabular form, the total number of persons who sustained work for 13, 26, 39 and 52 weeks based on the number of persons who have completed JobPath to date that is, no longer engaged on JobPath in tabular form. [60948/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of JobPath since it was established. [60949/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will be reviewing JobPath now that referrals have ended. [60950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 389. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the work of the transport working group; when the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60859/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 413. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the financial supports, grants and otherwise that are available for afterschool's; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60945/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 698. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of continued ongoing issues for medical card holders in accessing dental care under the dental treatment scheme in counties Roscommon and Galway; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60943/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the staffing of Disability Network Teams in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60727/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress of introducing a transport support scheme to replace the mobility allowance and motorised transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60860/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 697. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the dental treatment scheme; the number of dentists active in the scheme by county; the number of dentists who having previously left the scheme have returned by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60942/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: In that case, I will withdraw the amendment.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 13: "In page 9, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “Report on including apprenticeships as education for social welfare payments 17. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas reviewing the inclusion of apprenticeships in the definition of “full-time education” and with regard to how this is...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I had initially raised this issue with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science because I had presumed, like the Minister opposite that it was a matter for him. However, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science redirected me to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, because of the impact it would have on social welfare...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: However, take for example, an 18 year old who is leaving secondary school and who is going on to do an apprenticeship. I do not think that there is any financial support or an income that they can access. I do not think that there many people on the guardian's payment. They are looking after a child. I believe that because of that it should be looked at. The Minister has agreed to do...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, after line 32, to insert the following: “Report on rates based on Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) 16.The Minister shall carry out a review on introducing social welfare rates which are benchmarked to the Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) to study the effect that adequacy of social welfare rates could have on addressing...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 10: In page 8, after line 32, to insert the following: “Report on the means-testing for Blind Pension and Disability Allowance 16.The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the means-testing eligibility requirement for Blind Pension and Disability Allowance and the impact that income threshold limitations have on access...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 11: In page 8, after line 32, to insert the following: “Report on assessment of self-employed people in receipt of Blind Pension and Disability Allowance 16.The Minister shall review the way in which self-employed people including artists and people employed in creative industries are assessed regarding Blind Pension and Disability Allowance and the impact that...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 12: In page 8, after line 32, to insert the following: “Report on extending the provision of Disability Allowance to agents in the case of the bereavement of a child 16.The Minister shall review the rule regarding the continuation of Disability Allowance payment where a person is the collecting agent for their child who passes away and prepare a report on...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on extending availability of full Parent’s Benefit to Lone Parents 9. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on extending the availability of the full duration of Parent’s Benefit to lone parents to examine the effect that enabling...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I will withdraw the amendment on the basis that the report is being done. I understand the issues around having both parents and equality and all of that. It is not fair on children who have just one parent, however. A child with two parents will have 14 weeks whereas a child with one parent will have only seven weeks. It is not fair on a child who for whatever reason has one parent, even...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome that the Minister has agreed to look at this. It is very important. A number of Members in the Opposition have raised concerns, as have Government backbenchers, about community welfare officers and accessing them. As well as those of us in the Opposition, organisations like the Society of St. Vincent de Paul have raised concerns about accessing community welfare officers. We...