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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The working family payment scheme is very important for people in low-paid employment. Will the Minister consider expanding it in the budget?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister to give a timeline as regards publishing the straw-man report because it is important that this work is done. It is welcome it is being done but a timeline would be helpful, particularly for the implementation plan on the back of that cost of disability report, which the organisations are seeking. I hope too that in the work that will be done now on restructuring those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department will introduce measures to reflect the additional cost of disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35175/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: When will the Minister publish the implementation plan to address the cost of disability?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: With regard to the report now going to the steering group, is there a timeline for the work the group will do on the report and when it will come back to the Minister? Will the straw-man proposal to look at restructuring long-term disability payments include the domiciliary care allowance? I believe it should. Most people would agree that there are ongoing difficulties in this regard....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm the updates to processes for the additional needs payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35174/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister about the new process in place for the additional needs payment.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: It is really welcome and I welcome the income limits that are there as well. I welcome the advertisements, the fact that awareness is being raised of what is available and that it is available to workers as well as those who rely on social welfare. I asked previously that putting this online be looked at because I came across a lone parent in her late 40s who had worked all her life....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Will all the data for those who apply and receive or do not receive an additional needs payment be collected? I presume a person can ring the contact centre, ask for an application form and it will be posted to his or her house. That is welcome. While the online access will be helpful for some, as will phone and email, for others it will not be. In my home town we have Syrian and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 23. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that are being put in place to meet forestry licence targets and address the current backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38169/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish her response to the report of the Pension Commission and recommendations before the Dáil summer recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the planned review to the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given further consideration to her Department providing support with redundancy payments for local employment service and jobs club branches when their services cease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38132/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the serious implications that means testing and eligibility requirements for the carer’s allowance have on family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she intends to publish her response to the report of the Child Maintenance Review Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits made by the IDA to County Roscommon and each location visited in 2020, 2021, and to date in 2022. [39050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits made by the IDA to County Galway and each location visited in 2020, 2021, and to date in 2022. [39051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 183. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits to a site (details supplied) by the IDA; the level of interest in same site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39053/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 182. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider making the recommendations of the Workplace Relations Commission binding in cases which it involves a body that is funded by the State and therefore, the taxpayer where such a body is found to have done wrong. [39052/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the serious implications that means testing and eligibility requirements for the carer’s allowance has on family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35176/22]