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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for persons who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and had their payments ceased as a result of reaching 66 years of age; if consideration has been given to allowing recipients of the State pension (contributory) to receive the pandemic unemployment payment in circumstances in which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of social welfare payments for April, May and June and to date in 2021; and the number in receipt of each social welfare payment in tabular form. [30858/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 869. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of parent’s leave and benefit by month in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [31085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures her Department has in place to address concerns of seconded local employment scheme and community employment scheme employees with regard to their employment particularly in relation pension allowances and unpensioned portions of salary which constitute core pay; if direct engagement and mediation is in place...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals to each job club by location in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [31644/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons accessing employment services through INTREO in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date 2021, in tabular form. [31661/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the pathways to work strategy 2021-2024 will be launched; if further information on the announced work placement experience programme will be included in the strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31662/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support available for students facing difficulty with accessing graduate-entry medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ferry Services (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1214. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it will be ensured that the minimum daily service is amended from two to four crossings per day regarding the tender for Clare Island ferry services; if the tender will be amended in consultation with Clare Island residents to ensure the needs of the community are met; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30541/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Investigations (15 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1221. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an investigation (details supplied) underway within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31449/21]

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State for her statement and I will focus my contribution on the e-mental health hub in Castlerea in my constituency, which replaced the former Rosalie dementia care unit for older people. I raised the funding issue in this Chamber three weeks ago after replies from the HSE to me confirmed funding for the e-mental health hub in Castlerea was not provided this year. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: Last Friday, a tender was published to expand local employment services into four new areas. This would have been welcome had the local employment services been extended based on the existing service, which is community based and not for profit. Instead, the tender proposes a new payment-by-results model similar to that found in JobPath. It proposes the end of the community ethos and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (3 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of efforts to replace jobs lost at a factory (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29733/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises connected under the National Broadband Plan in counties Galway and Roscommon to date in tabular form. [30278/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons by county in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker’s benefit. [30277/21]

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important motion. It is now five years since the national maternity strategy was launched. It was hailed at the time as setting out radical reforms of maternity and neonatal services over a ten-year period. However, last year HIQA published a report following inspections of 19 maternity units and hospitals, during which it discovered that the HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (2 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that are in receipt of part-time and casual jobseeker’s benefit, part-time and casual jobseeker’s allowance and short time work support payments for 1, 2 and 3 days, respectively per payment, per day, in tabular form. [30018/21]

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important legislation. I listened to the Minister of State. Despite, as he puts it, holding the insurance companies to account, nothing that has been done by the Government has reduced premiums. Premiums are still increasing. That is the problem. It is a great shame that we must constantly force the insurance companies to do the right thing when...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (1 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of schools that will be connected under the National Broadband Plan by the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29382/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (1 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to accelerate the broadband roll-out as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29381/21]