Results 3,421-3,440 of 4,403 for speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of abolishing the means test for the blind pension. [33518/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the qualified child increase by €1 for children under the age of 12 and €1 for children over the age of 12 respectively. [33519/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the carer’s support grant to €2,000. [33520/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending the fuel allowance for one additional week. [33521/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of bringing the current young jobseeker’s rate of €112.70 per week up to the full rate of €203. [33522/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the jobseeker’s transitional payment scheme age cut-off to 18 years of age. [33523/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of providing rent supplement to survivors of domestic violence in 2020. [33524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 519. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to allowing park run events in counties Roscommon and Longford to return; his plans to allow park runs and other sporting events to return with social distancing guidelines in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25855/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the vote headings and sub-headings for her Department in tabular form. [32544/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (17 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 5 May 2021, the action that has been taken to ensure that those receiving pension payments overseas are no longer subject to bank charges in recognition of the reduction these charges cause to pension payments as a result of recent charges which were not in place before; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for on-campus learning for third-level students for the upcoming academic year; if this will be a matter for each individual college or university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 421. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the vote headings and sub-headings for her Department in tabular form. [32545/21]

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: In 2020, over €3.6 million in direct payments went to just 20 farm enterprises, while average CAP payments in counties Roscommon and Galway are about €10,000 and many farmers receive much less. At the same time, some individuals are receiving between €200,000 and €400,000-plus in CAP payments. This is not right, it is not fair and it is something we should be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Last week, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland published its research report on caring and coping with dementia during Covid-19. The report found family carers to be at breaking point, with their mental and physical well-being seriously affected. More than half of family carers were worried about how they would continue to cope. Carers spoke about the loss of day services, about community...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 222 of 3 June 2021, the number of premises connected and complete under the National Broadband Plan in counties Galway and Roscommon to date in tabular form. [32175/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for persons in receipt of the carer’s allowance and who have been in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment; if there has been consideration for those carers who cannot return to work as yet and who also cannot sign up to jobseeker’s allowance as a result of their part-time...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 246. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of developing the 400 remote working hubs and the requisite support services identified in Our Rural Future and for additional remote working hubs in each of the 31 local authority areas. [32288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Authorities (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 247. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of reviewing the local authority participation structures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32289/21]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: First, on the Our Rural Future policy, can the Minister update us on its work plan for the coming year? She might give us details on how she thinks it is going to work. Is she considering a number of the recommendations and actions from the report on a year-by-year basis and, as each one is completed, will she mark it off the list and move on? My second issue is in respect of remote...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Proposed Regional Employment Service: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Some LES staff said to me that they were worried about the tender but that this is worse than they had feared. This is a big mistake. This proposal would erode the community ethos and the not-for-profit model so well fostered by the likes of the LES and job clubs for so many years. I am disappointed about how this has been put forward. The LES and job clubs were led to believe that they...