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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Register Office (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time for registering a birth and registering a death; and the number of applications awaiting processing for both. [48945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of child benefit; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed. [48946/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of PPS numbers; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed. [48947/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the offices under her Department that remain closed to the public due to Covid-19. [48948/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Service (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the civil registration office in Dublin remains closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48949/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (7 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a closed facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48950/21]

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion and commend People Before Profit on bringing it forward this morning. As we all know, energy costs have been increasing consistently in the past number of years and families and households are now facing their highest ever electricity and heating bills in many cases. We have heard much talk in recent weeks about the fuel allowance and any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if second year students that were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment are eligible to apply for the back to education allowance considering many students will have lost their job as a result of the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48547/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I have to leave as I am due to speak in the Chamber and I will return immediately after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for coming and for their presentations. I apologise because I missed part of the questions and answers. If I ask questions that have already been answered, therefore, please feel free to skip over them. I will watch the recording of this meeting later. I will pose my questions to all the witnesses and then whoever wishes to answer may do so. They can suit...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I recently met with early years educators working in counties Roscommon and Galway on their new deal for early years and budget submission for 2022. I met with so many young women, in particular, in early years education doing a job they absolutely love. You can tell that as soon as you meet them. They are really struggling to get by, however. I recall during the previous general...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the assessable income limit for fuel allowance means test by 10% for a single person under 80, single person over 80, for a couple in circumstances in which the qualified adult is aged under 66 or a couple in which the qualified adult is aged 66 or over in tabular form. [48144/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will re-examine the amount available to applicants under the housing adaption grants given the increase in building materials in order that the amounts awarded better reflect the costs of such works for older people and persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47287/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person cannot receive funding under the housing adaption grant twice in a four year period; if there is a four-year rule in which a person has to wait to apply for the grant for a second time as detailed in correspondence from a local authority (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to introduce greater incentives for persons who buy a vacant or dilapidated property and seek to renovate it into a family home; the current financial supports that already exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the working family payment to the self-employed; if any costings have been carried out to examine the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47232/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to Tús by county in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [47297/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if policies are in place for referrals to Tús to take into account the address of the person and that they are given a place on Tús in the county in which they reside rather than being referred to a scheme in a neighbouring county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47301/21]