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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disabilities Assessments (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that children aged over 16 years of age are currently assessed for the disability allowance from a means-testing perspective; if their personal income or their parents or overall household income is assessed; if she will provide the threshold boundaries which are used for means-testing for the disability allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the domiciliary care allowance in 2021; the number that transitioned to the disability allowance once they were over 16 years of age; the number that are in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance that had their disability allowance applications refused in 2021; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow apprenticeships to be considered as full-time education to allow those in receipt of payments such as the guardian's payment to continue receiving it in respect of a child up until the age of 22 in circumstances in which that child is in full-time education rather than just seeing full-time education at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1036. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to increase the number of home carers to alleviate waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14785/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1037. To ask the Minister for Health the status of legislation being introduced to regulate the home care sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14786/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1150. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider allowing a derogation on GLAS plans for this year in order that farmers are not constrained regarding land use (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14756/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister said earlier that it is so important that we make a difference. I agree with him, but what does his difference look like? What does the difference that he is bringing forward today look like? We know that it currently costs well over €1,000 to fill a tank of oil, and that cost is rising. There is nothing that the Minister has announced today that will make a difference...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I too want to commend the Labour Party on bringing forward this motion. I cannot stress enough the importance of remote working to our rural towns and villages. While it is hard to see anything positive in relation to Covid, it has been life-changing for rural Ireland in allowing people to work from home, to reduce commute times and to remain in their communities, which is of huge benefit...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I too commend my colleague Deputy Tully on the work she has done in bringing forward this motion. For a parent with a child who has additional needs, the battle for services and supports is constant. A parent may notice something when the child is only two or three years of age: their balance, their eye contact or their inability to do things children of the same age can do. That is just...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 15 February 2022, the members of the survivor-led consultative forum; the person that chairs this forum; when it was established; the terms of reference; the regularity with which it meets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date from which recipients of the fuel allowance will receive the additional payment €125; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12937/22]

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome those in the Gallery this evening, many of whom played a key role in what has become a major debate on pension age. The Minister of State will know that during the most recent general election, the people sent a very clear message to Government on pension age. While many of us might run a mile on hearing the word "pension", the pension age clearly matters to the public and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (3 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that he plans to address ongoing issues in relation to the dereliction and regeneration of derelict buildings under the Town Centre First policy particularly in relation to incentivising or penalising persons who own vacant or derelict properties but are not utilising them; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (3 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent research by an organisation (details supplied) which found that the overall poverty rate of households receiving housing subsidies rises to 19% after they have paid their rent; the steps he will take to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5330/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the report issued to her by Caranua, entitled Evaluation of the impact of Caranua in providing funding supports to survivors of institutional abuse; the steps she plans to take on the back of this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an enhanced medical card identified as a need for survivors in the Caranua Report, entitled Evaluation of the impact of Caranua in providing funding supports to survivors of institutional abuse will be made available; if she is working to achieve this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to including foster carers as an eligible group as part of the recent recommendations by the Pension Commission regarding establishing a State pension for long-time carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11995/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank all the witnesses for being here this morning and I thank Ms Moran for her opening statement. I wish to follow up particularly on housing. I am aware of the requirement to demonstrate a local need with planning applications. When people get to the stage of applying for planning permission, what are the factors leading to refusal in the first instance? I welcome the work that UCC...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: When people are putting in a planning application, is local need an issue, as it has been in our area? If not, what are the barriers when people go for planning permission? Why are people being refused, or is it that people are not going for planning permission in many cases?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering changes to the tenant purchase scheme which would allow very long-term tenants of local authority homes an opportunity of purchasing the home; the implications of the earnings requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11635/22]