Results 2,561-2,580 of 4,556 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a process in place with regard to the forthcoming changes to national employment services for Local Employment Service clients wishing to avail of training funding for courses which are not completed before the end of August 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37767/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm with regard to the forthcoming changes to national employment services if INTREO staff will process back to education allowance applications for Local Employment Service and Job Club clients from August and September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37768/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department intends to support the transfer clients from Local Employment Service and Job Club caseloads to INTREO; if she will advise the resources that are currently in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37769/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing each social welfare payment by €1 disaggregated by payment type from 27 September to 31 December 2022 and from 1 January to 31 December 2023. [38099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing core social protection payments to meet the minimum essential standard of living disaggregated by payment type for the period 27 September to 31 December 2022 and for the period from 21 January to 31 December 2023. [38100/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the qualified child increase payment rate by €1 for children under 12 years of age and over 12 years of age respectively for the period 27 September to 31 December 2022 and for the period from 21 January to 31 December 2023. [38101/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Yesterday, researchers from NUI Galway launched the 2022 edition of the local authority finances website. It shows that Galway County Council has a budget of under €144 million for this year, which is equivalent of €802 per person in Galway. If you look at the counties surrounding Galway, you can see that Mayo has a budget of the equivalent of €1,256 per person, Clare...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I too commend Deputy Cairns and the Social Democrats on tabling this motion. The latest data we have from the survey on income and living conditions were published in May. While the Minister of State was quick to welcome the reductions nationally across the rates for the key social inclusion indicators, those same data alarmingly show increases across the board for people with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the one-parent family payment scheme age cut-off to 14 years of age. [36494/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients of the benefit for those over 65 years; the full year cost of this scheme to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the weekly payment rate for the carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit to €325 per week; and if she will provide this information in tabular form by payment. [36496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process of securing an oral hearing for social welfare appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the intended changes to the appeals process from a Departmental organisation perspective; the way that the social welfare appeals office fits into these structures alongside her Department overall; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to the allocation of additional refuge spaces in counties Roscommon and Galway given the recent transfer of responsibility for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence service delivery to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35743/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by older people with accounts with a bank (details supplied) who have to find alternative banking and have no photographic identification, passport or driver's licence, which many in their 80s and 90s, in particular, do not have; if provision will be made for these citizens; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to extend the provision of the hot school meals scheme to continue beyond term time in 2022 and throughout the summer months, as it did for the previous academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35271/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of maternity benefit and paternity benefit who also received another means tested social protection payment from 2019 to date; if she will advise on these figures as an overall percentage by payment type and year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (30 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare schemes in respect of which payment rates and rules may be adjusted by way of ministerial order and those requiring amendments to primary legislation, respectively, in tabular form; and the number of recipients and annual spend on each of the schemes. [35172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on the eligibility of school cleaners to avail of the cycle to work scheme considering that other school staff are able to avail of the scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on the eligibility for recipients who are moving off domiciliary care allowance in a year to receive the carer's support grant in the same year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34793/22]