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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to introducing a travel stipend to support community employment participants in rural communities, given the ongoing cost of living crisis and increasing cost of fuel and limited public transport in many rural areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49502/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients will receive a one-off payment for each grant that they are in receipt of, following the one-off payment for recipients of the carer’s support grant announced in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49792/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason fuel allowance recipients who are participants in the employment support schemes cannot avail of the fuel allowance as a lump sum payment; if consideration has been given to offering the choice of weekly payments or lump-sum payment for those recipients particularly given many households rely on oil to heat their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the announced one-off payments announced in Budget 2023 are expected to be paid across October, November and December 2022, in tabular form per payment and respective dates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50192/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 5 October 2022, the average processing time for applications for additional needs payments for the 37% of applications which are not finalised within four weeks broken down by weekly timeframe in relation to processing times in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are in place for workers with children who are required to isolate or stay at home due to Covid-19, in circumstances where the parent has to take time off work to care for the child and has to suffer a financial loss or take time from annual leave; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 623. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are being put in place for children who require urgent orthodontic care as a result of a specific issue (details supplied) where the HSE have not yet accepted responsibility for transfer of care in this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 624. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to situations with regard to children and young people who are discharged from CAHMS where these patients are referred to a HSE healthcare centre or day hospital to be seen by a psychologist which often have long waiting lists; if he will advise the supports that are in place to prevent the patient waiting for extended...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 633. To ask the Minister for Health if fees paid by families under the fair deal scheme will be reviewed given the high costs for families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the rules that are in place concerning costs under the fair deal scheme after the person has been in nursing care for three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that are in the mental health unit at Roscommon County Hospital; if there is a waiting list; the extent of same; the average time spent by a person on the waiting list; the current staffing levels in the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49537/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (6 Oct 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 119. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grants that are available for a business (details supplied) in tabular form. [49282/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are supports for owners of commercial premises which have been vacant for a long time to allow them to install the necessary services within the building to rent it out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49283/22]

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]