Results 2,201-2,220 of 4,556 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the allowable differential between the cost price of the hearing aids provided to those eligible for treatment benefit scheme and the price charged to grant recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1132/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a minimum standard of hearing aid specified under the treatment benefit scheme with specific features like noise reduction, tinnitus relief and so on. [1133/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of updated payment rates for core social protection payments from January 2023; and if she will provide this list, in tabular form, by payment. [2170/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of 1250cc and 1500cc motorcycles that are in the Garda fleet as of 9 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1533/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Services (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of justice youth diversion programmes in County Roscommon, including the location, funding amount and number of young persons engaged in each programme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1534/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1213. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the establishment of an inquiry into the licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63429/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1214. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on engagement between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1508. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant plastic surgeons working in Roscommon University Hospital in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [1530/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1509. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and staffing resources that would be required to increase the opening hours of the complex menopause clinic at Galway University Hospital from one afternoon per week to three full days per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1531/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1711. To ask the Minister for Health when all outstanding Covid recognition payments will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Recreation Policy (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 1926. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development regarding the Outdoor Recreational Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) if she will advise the way the scheme will operate for 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2169/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I have been contacted by a mother in Roscommon whose child requires occupational therapy and speech and language therapy but is not receiving it. In her email she said it is one year since the provision of services transferred from the Brothers of Charity to the HSE. During this year the situation has been intolerable for her family, with having to beg at ministerial level for services. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Offshore Islands (15 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: It is still not clear to me why the decision was made that the islands would not be afforded that specific stand-alone subregional area status, although I appreciate it was considered. In 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the special situation of islands. Through EU policy, islands are to be treated as distinct territories. That seems to be totally against what the...

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....