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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the part-time job incentive scheme for the self-employed; if it will continue beyond the end of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update regarding the professional artists on jobseeker’s allowance; if consideration has been given to extending eligibility for the scheme to artists who are not in a union (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the delays in the processing of domiciliary care allowance applications; the average processing time for applications for the allowance from November 2021 to date; the measures her Department has put in place to reduce delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11591/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (1 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 878. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will advise the funding streams that are available for organisations which have been awarded charitable status; if she will provide information on the opening and closing dates for each in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11630/22]

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State. On the amendment and the proposal, this day six months will bring us to the end of August. At that time, the Dáil will be in recess and will not return until the end of September, and we will then be into the budgetary cycle. This report was due at the end of last year. It is now, we are told, to be published by Easter. If it is published by Easter,...

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This is very important legislation and, if passed, it will make an immediate difference to lone parents and their families. The current situation for both income supports which lone parents can receive, the one-parent family payment and jobseeker’s transitional payment, sees lone parents having to prove they have sought...

Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the publication of the town centre first policy. In particular, I welcome its recognition of the fact that one size does not fit all and that we need unique solutions for the unique challenges each and every town faces, given they are all different. I also welcome the idea of tailored plans for towns. It is important for buy-in that there be consultation not only with the town...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the national broadband plan target for 2022 will be provided; the key milestones for 2022, considering the targets for 2021 were not achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10263/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an update will be provided on the just transition plans of his Department for communities in which peat-burning stations have been shut down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10265/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I want to raise the issue of broadband roll-out with the Taoiseach. This is critical infrastructure for homes and businesses across Roscommon, Galway and many rural areas across the State. We know that the target for National Broadband Ireland, NBI, for 2021 was reduced from 115,000 premises to 60,000. Both targets have been missed by a mile. We know that 34,500 premises were completed by...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: It is clear that the cost of living package that was announced a number of weeks ago is not enough. It was interesting that the €505 million that was announced was lumped in with the budget. We have raised the cost of living for a number of months, particularly after the survey we conducted last October to which more than 14,000 people responded. At that stage, it was clear that the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (23 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State. She still has not answered the question, though. We deserve answers as to why funding was not continued into 2021. Funding was provided in 2020. The Minister of State said work was progressed by the HSE, including initial recruitment in 2020, but by 7 December one consultant had been recruited - just one. There was nothing significant in regard to work...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (23 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister of State will know that the e-mental health hub in Castlerea was opened in June 2020 as a state-of-the-art, first-of-its-kind hub for mental health. This was to serve the western region as a psychiatry of later life day hospital and a child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, Connect, that is, to serve the needs of both young and old. I first began asking questions...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if citizens living in the State will be able to avail of the European targeted mobility scheme should they relocate to the North of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10168/22]

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: First, it is important to say that nobody on these benches has suggested that the carbon tax has led to the current energy cost hikes. I would have thought that was quite obvious. However, what we are saying quite clearly is that heaping additional costs from 1 May, when people are already struggling and going cold in their homes, is not the right thing to do. Whatever way it is put,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the available funding for a club (details supplied) for maintenance works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9604/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients across all social assistance and social insurance payments, by payment type, as of February 2021, in tabular form. [9146/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients across jobseeker’s benefit and related schemes as of February 2021; and the number of days that recipients been receiving payment, per scheme, in tabular form. [9147/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (22 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered providing a top-up payment for Irish citizens living in the State and receiving pensions from overseas to bring these payments in line with the standard State pension rate (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9591/22]

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

Claire Kerrane: 554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered removing the rule with regard to the supplementary welfare allowance and the general 30-hour eligibility rule given that many low- and middle-income households are struggling with the rising cost of living and that this fund is intended to be available to those who are facing financial difficulties;...