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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a village (details supplied) will be connected by National Broadband Ireland;if this has changed to the initial plan in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51587/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) will be connected by National Broadband Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51588/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 222 of 3 June 2021 and 41 of 16 September 2021, the number of premises connected by National Broadband Ireland, not surveyed, not ready for connection, but connected to date in counties Roscommon and Galway. [51589/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to increase capacity on post-primary school buses in line with public transport given issues being experienced by working parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51578/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to major difficulties being faced by primary school principals in sourcing substitute teachers; the way in which she plans to rectify same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51579/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of full rate pensions approved on an annual basis which have been based on level of contributions (details supplied) from 1991 to date, per contribution boundary in tabular form. [51529/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients who are currently in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will not be moved to standard jobseeker’s terms should the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions not go ahead on 22 October 2021 as planned particularly with regard to those who cannot return to their employment as a result of current...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 326. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a six month progress report on the implementation of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 will be available considering the commitment to providing this as set out in the strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51384/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 327. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current status of the actions set out in the Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 work programme; if her Department will complete all scheduled actions by the end of 2021 as planned; if she will provide an update on each measure listed in the work programme in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning and for their time. First, targets are important, of course, and particularly important where, obviously, in an awful lot of cases, people are very much waiting to access broadband which is, in many cases, badly needed in their homes. I understand the initial target for the end of this year was 115,000 premises. According to the opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: My last question is on penalties for milestones missed. If the milestones are being revised, as they were this year and will be next year, how will these penalties work? Will they not just be dodged, although that is not the right word?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I will be brief. To be clear on the figures, fewer than 17,000 premises have been fully passed and the target for the end of the year is 60,000. Is that 60,000 premises where order or pre-order is available or 60,000 that have been fully passed? What is the target for fully passed premises by the end of the year? Did the initial target of 115,000 have to do with being fully passed or just...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I appreciate that recruitment is not something the Minister of State can control but perhaps if recruitment had started in June 2020 when the service was opened rather than seven months into 2021, we would not have much of an issue now. While I acknowledge that significant investment went into opening this facility in the first instance, funding did not carry through until earlier this year....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 91. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the staffing levels and range of services being provided currently in a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50829/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister please provide an update on the staffing levels and the current services available in the e-mental health hub in Castlerea in my constituency? This hub, as the Minister knows, was opened in June 2020. No funding was provided from January of this year. This is an issue I have raised repeatedly. Funding was put in place in July. Has it been spent?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Just to confirm, three posts remain unfilled in the CAMHS Connect and none has been filled for the psychiatry of later life service.

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: The latest report from the Residential Tenancies Board published earlier this month shows rents in County Roscommon have increased by 8.6% and in County Galway by 9.4%. That is just in the last year alone. Average rents in County Roscommon are now over €718 per month and in County Galway rents have surpassed €1,000 per month and are now approximately €1,300 per month....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if there are current vacancies in a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50830/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rights of Way (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that persons (details supplied) are not being offered compensation when they are set to lose their existing access right of way on a private road as it is taken for the new N5 Scramogue to Ballaghaderreen bypass; the reason they have not been offered a CPO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51068/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (19 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 598 of 28 April 2021, the actions that have been taken post Caranua to ensure continued support of survivors of institutional abuse; if she will provide details of the ongoing supports that remain in place given the acknowledgement that survivors must be supported lifelong; if an interdepartmental group is...