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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the €67 million in funding that was announced in Budget 2023 to fund 12,300 grants to adapt the homes of older people and people with a disability that is new and additional funding for 2023. [49271/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the adaptation grant for older people and people with a disability scheme will be published. [49274/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the €25 million that was announced to support adaptation works to 1,800 existing social homes announced in Budget 2023 that is new and additional funding for 2023. [49272/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (6 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the €4 million figure that was announced in Budget 2023 for increased capital funding for the delivery of Traveller accommodation and for adaptation works for the homes of older people and people with a disability that is for Traveller accommodation; and if this €4 million figure is part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (6 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date until which persons must be in receipt of invalidity pension in order to qualify for the one-off payment; if persons who reach the age of 66 years and are transferred to a State pension in November still qualify for the one-off payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49337/22]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Public transport is still very much non-existent in many parts of rural Ireland. We are still seeing the loss of services. Last summer, the Dublin-Galway X20 bus service was taken away, which particularly impacted the likes of Aughrim and Ballinasloe in east Galway. That services are still being lost very much flies in the face of the green agenda and encouraging people to get out of their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports that are in place regarding benefit-in-kind to reduce the impact of higher financial costs for those workers who commute as part of their job considering the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, the recent changes to the benefit and the fact that these workers use vehicles for their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48674/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (5 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 221. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify whether the cost-of-living payment included in Budget 2023 will be available to all social welfare recipients given that there was reference to the payment being made to long-term recipients, not all recipients; if she will ensure that this information is widely available given that communication so far...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (5 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify when in October 2022 that the cost-of-living payment is expected to be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for applications for additional needs payments by month from June 2022 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48863/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (5 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48872/22]

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: If this was about the industry paying the price, of course, we would not be here this evening. It is, quite frankly, naive of the Minister of State to think that this will not be passed on to people building their first homes and to those forced to rebuild their homes. I listened to the response by the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, earlier on, much of which he spent justifying why the banks and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy where students aged 19 years with a student Leap card can avail of reduced transport costs while students aged 18 years cannot; if he will examine extending this to allow 18-year-old students the same access to more affordable transport as 19-year-old students; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the schemes targeted at providing support for derelict and vacant homes will be extended, given the announcement schemes would be made more widely available in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48505/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of persons in receipt of disablement benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47878/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing fuel allowance payment rates dependent on household size; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47888/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Consultations (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if the Workforce Advisory Group, which was established to examine the workforce in the homecare sector, has reported its findings; if he will outline the next steps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48103/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 698. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recommendations that have been actioned with regard to a report on mental health services in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (4 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the effectiveness of the TB programme in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48504/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Regarding the budget, certainly, “the devil is in the detail” rings a bell. One would see that when looking at the commitments around GP care. We know that commitments made previously in relation to under-12s, which has, in fact, been legislated for, has not come to fruition. There is much ambition in relation to that. It is welcome, if it can actually be implemented. In...