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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the town centre first approach. In fairness to the town and village renewal scheme, it includes a real and excellent level of consultation with those in the communities in which the scheme is, hopefully, going to work. I want to raise an issue. Actively working against this is the town centre public realm enhancement scheme. In Ballaghaderreen, which is my home town, there are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the publication of this plan as someone who has lived in rural Ireland all of her life and who would live nowhere else. It is an ambitious plan and I acknowledge that. The difficulty is that while it is a five-year strategic plan, it is disappointing that the timelines were not there in the first place. The Minister referred to short-term and longer-term deliverables but, again,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I understood from the press conference after the launch of Our Rural Future that the list of actions to be worked on for this year was due at the end of that week or at least I believe it was said at the time that the timelines would be detailed in the next week. I acknowledge that this is an ambitious plan but I reiterate that it is disappointing there was not some timeframes built in there...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeline for the roll-out of the Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 strategy as promised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28239/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister provide the timeline for the roll-out of the commitments made in Our Rural Future as promised?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 8. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when SICAP funding will be increased to its 2008 level of €84 million given that current funding is at 50% of this amount; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27971/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Infrastructure (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 26. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the provisions being implemented to deal with digital poverty in disadvantaged areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27970/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Grant Payments (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if figures regarding grants from Enterprise Ireland awarded to a company (details supplied) in 2020 and to date in 2021 will be provided. [28050/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of work to move school secretaries from being paid through the board of management ancillary grant to under her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of the STAR pilot project undertaken in Tuam, County Galway, as developed from the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021; the findings of the pilot project; if consideration has been given to further roll-out; if a new strategy will be developed post-2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27577/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the poverty impact assessment of reduced jobseeker rates for 18 to 24 year olds as committed to in the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019; and when the assessment will be published. [27913/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance; and the number who are on a reduced rate. [28343/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment to meet the minimum essential standard of living as detailed by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will provide this information with regard to the current base rates and minimum essential standard of living rates by contributory and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average revenue net weekly pay for current recipients of casual and short-time social welfare benefit schemes by scheme in tabular form. [28380/21]

Principles of Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to go ahead. I welcome the Bill and commend an Teachta Sherlock on bringing it forward. There are some really interesting elements to the Bill and, overall, it aims to improve our social protection system. That system is quite complex and can be difficult to navigate for some people. One of the principles of the Bill is that the social...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Last June, the Tánaiste opened the first e-mental health hub in Castlerea, County Roscommon in my constituency. It is a €2.6 million development to provide mental health services to children and young people through CAMHS Connect and, crucially, a day hospital for psychiatry of later life patients. The service was hailed at the time as having the potential to improve radically...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I want the funding released and the full services delivered.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister commit to it?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change the maximum grant limits of the housing adaptation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26824/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending short-time work support jobseeker’s benefit for those that are currently in receipt of this payment and are due to be taken off the scheme given the fact that many that are in receipt of this payment work in industries which cannot return to full-time work due to ongoing...