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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]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients of the working family payment will receive the Christmas bonus payment to social welfare recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her commitment to examine the possibility of extending the €500 disability payment to those in receipt of the Partial Capacity Benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare participants involved in skill development schemes, community and voluntary schemes and training courses per payment type in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62197/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Live Register (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients of jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance; the number of recipients of jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance in 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62198/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Live Register (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance by time spent on each payment type, including a time of less than 12 months; less than 24 months and longer than 24 months in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62199/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Live Register (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients of jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance, with regard to jobseeker's allowance for 18 to 25-year-olds for all rates of payment in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62200/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average processing times for all social welfare payments; the number of applications received for each payment; the number of applications processed to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62201/22]

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