Results 201-220 of 4,771 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has been denied an additional special needs assistant (SNA) by the NCSE following a recommendation made for the additional SNA by the local SENO following a formal review of the school's staffing allocation; why this recommendation was ignored; if she will seek a review by the NCSE of this decision; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a request for financial support from a newly amalgamated school (details supplied) where only one grant funding will be provided to subsidise the pay of secretaries upon amalgamation, reducing the amount the school receives from €46,550 to €23,275 despite no reduction in staffing levels; if she will support the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 747. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the amount of money allocated for pay for early years educators as part of core funding annually since its inception, and the corresponding amount used per pay agreement, in tabular form. [37731/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 815. To ask the Minister for Health further to a response by the HSE to Parliamentary Question REPDR 25/01974, if a wider issue (details supplied) will also be rectified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37434/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 816. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a new site for a primary care centre Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon; to outline the next steps for the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37440/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 864. To ask the Minister for Health if, following a query (details supplied), a wider issue will also be rectified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37732/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 884. To ask the Minister for Health if a healthcare professional (details supplied) could be trained in a hospital for breast cancer patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37832/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Care (8 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 935. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are any financial supports for communities where they provide services and activities for older people in community centres; if any organisations for older people support this financially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37435/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will seek the development of a rural Garda plan to ensure the unique policing of rural areas is recognised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers waiting on outstanding ACRES payments, including the numbers in Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 335. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality what the purpose and value was of the contingent charge recorded by the Minister for Health in 1974 (Instrument T.235/74); whether this charge was ever enforced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36800/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 336. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the State funded, subsidised or insured any aspect of the operations at a location (details supplied), including buildings, care services or facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36801/25]

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...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State for her opening statement and briefing documents and for being here this morning. Assessments of need and the workforce relate to an issue I have raised before. A pathway has been made available for people who train in England to be occupational therapists. It is typically a quicker pathway to register and be recognised by CORU when they return to Ireland....

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: On that, I have specific examples. I met a parent last Friday in my office in Ballaghaderreen. Her child got the assessment and it recommended a one-on-one SNA. The SENO also recommended that and then the school did not get the SNA. People go to the trouble of getting the assessment, which is not easy, and the assessment says X, Y or Z and then it is not provided. There is an issue there...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: The last one was on respite.

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]