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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 716. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the maximum rate of payment per child per day for breakfast-snack were increased to €1, cold lunch to €2, dinner to €2.75 and hot meal to €3.90 under the school meals programme. [55363/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff working in the INTREO centre in Carrick-on-Shannon as of 1 November 2020 and 1 November 2022, in tabular form; and if she will outline the geographical area that this centre covers. [55364/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if repeating first-year students are eligible for the fee reduction announced in budget 2023, in cases where a student has changed course after one year and is now a first-year student on a course; if he will set out the guidance for which students have been deemed eligible for the fee reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister and acknowledge that she has put a focus on the scheme and there has been additional funding. She said the same thing last year about her Department reaching out to local authorities to see what they had on their books, what had not been completed and what they could complete by the end of the year. I presume from the response of the Minister that is happening again...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I presume the Minister does not have figures on the backlog and the number of applications that are live and have not yet been completed. I understand that is what her Department is gathering and the information would be helpful. Perhaps "resistance" is the wrong word, but I know the Minister has raised this matter a number of times with the Minister, Deputy Ryan. Obviously, all of us have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 69. 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. [53698/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister for an update in relation to the development of a rural-proofing mechanism, as committed to in Our Rural Future.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Last month, the Minister provided an update on this. She said the report was completed and that she hoped to receive it shortly. Will she tell us more about the next steps? She also mentioned this is to be done within the lifetime of the policy, which is until 2025. Will she provide us with more information on the timeframe? The implementation of a rural-proofing mechanism is very...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: In her response, will the Minister outline the next steps in relation to the report, which I presume she has received by now, and the work done by the consultants on that rural-proofing mechanism? It is important it is a cross-departmental approach and that all Departments are held to account. That brings me back to the point about the emergency situation in the west and north west,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 70. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps her Department has taken to address the backlog of applications in the local improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53699/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister about the ongoing backlog within the local improvement scheme. We are all aware of the scheme and the demand for it. I know the Minister has increased funding to it, which is welcome, but there seems to be huge demand that is not being met in counties throughout the State. Will she provide up with an update on that?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 86. 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. [53707/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Transport (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 87. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on her engagement with the Department of Transport to improve rural public transport services and pilot new transport initiatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 105. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the building acquisition measure funding under the town and village renewal scheme will be continued into 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 109. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the LEADER Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53709/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 131. 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. [53706/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (27 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider making recommendations made by the Workplace Relations Commission obligatory to be honoured where it finds against a body which is State-funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is flexibility within the Housing Agency rules in cases in which a person who has been approved for a local authority mortgage cannot have it drawn down given that no management company is currently in place in the estate and the estate is classed as unfinished in order to ensure that an approved applicant would...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a community support grant funding application decision (details supplied) will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53723/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I will be brief. Mr. Kearney put it better than any of us could when he said people just want to live in their homes. This is really the top and the bottom of the issue. It is a small ask in this day and age, but, unfortunately, this is the request. This is all that is being looked for. All of us local representatives have been on the ground at Lough Funshinagh. It is important to again...