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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial support will be given to a person (details supplied) in the high-risk category for Covid-19 who is taking part in an online masters degree course and has been refused a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43558/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to make the drug dupilumab available to those living with severe atopic eczema; the timeframe for its roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43575/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce the current 63 week wait for audiology in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42511/20]

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 9, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on the effectiveness of the JobPath scheme 18. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the effectiveness of the JobPath scheme and the impact it is having on the sustainability of other job activation schemes and that the report shall be presented...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister has stated that not everyone is going to JobPath, but more people are being referred to it than to any other scheme. That has been the case for a number of years. Regarding the more than 280,000 people who have been referred, the success rate where a job is sustained for longer than 52 weeks is 7%. I welcome the Minister's acknowledgement that the referral fee of €311 is...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 8: In page 9, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on income limits for Carer’s Allowance 18. The Minister shall carry out a review on the income limits for Carer’s Allowance and explore the expansion of the income limit to allow for those on average industrial incomes to qualify for the payment and that the report shall be...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 7: In page 9, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: "Report on the effectiveness and adequacy of the Fuel Allowance 18. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the effectiveness, adequacy, coverage and eligibility of the Fuel Allowance Scheme in addressing the heating requirements of households experiencing energy...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. I had a similar amendment which was correctly ruled out of order on foot of the cost to the Exchequer. I fully understand the ruling in that regard. Would the Minister consider paying half of the payment in January? As to listening to the stakeholders and carers themselves, the amendment I had put forward that it would be paid in two halves...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome that the Minister has agreed and has clearly engaged with musicians and others. I hope that this amendment will make a difference to many workers and their families at this time.

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Social Welfare Bill 2020. Typically, the Social Welfare Bill comes before the House in October and November each year. It is a shame that this Bill has come so late this year, particularly in view of the importance of the section which will repeal the pension age increases to 67 in January 2021 and to 68 in 2028, a move I welcome.This will provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. My first question concerns the report from the Western Development Commission. We are all well aware that people have moved west, sometimes back to where they grew up, since Covid hit and they have been able to work remotely, which has been great and positive. If there is to be an increase in the population in rural areas, such as Roscommon,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Will the rural action plan that was supposed to run from 2020 be published before the end of the year? I refer to the previous action plan for rural development from 2017 to 2019, which had a key commitment and target of job creation, which was very welcome. My issue with that, which is something I hope will be rectified in the new action plan, is that targets were met in job creation -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: It is unfortunate that while it is being finalised, it has been left to the last minute for people who will be concerned about this. I appreciate what our guests have said.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: The programme for Government commits to investigate the provision of domestic violence paid leave. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, has also called on the Government to ratify the International Labour Organisation, ILO, convention No. 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work. Article 18 of the accompanying recommendation details measures Governments should take to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: We welcome that there has been agreement on how the Covid vaccine will be administered. There needs to be the tightest possible contact between the Northern Executive and the Government. That will be critical in the roll-out of the vaccine, particularly in Border counties. I welcome the level of co-ordination that the Taoiseach has stated remains in place between him and the First Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I wish to raise the decision of the European Committee of Social Rights, ECSR, and the Government's compliance with the right to equal pay, as well as the right to equal opportunities in the workplace. The Irish Federation of University Women, through the University Women of Europe, lodged a complaint within the framework of the collective complaints procedure with the ECSR as the monitoring...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: Yesterday, I launched Sinn Féin's proposals on dealing with household debt. Ahead of that, I reread some of the life stories shared with me as part of our campaign to highlight the issue of household debt. In one case, a person said the children were suffering. That person cannot sleep and the children are not let out to play for fear someone will come to knock on the door about a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I again raise the issue of student accommodation refunds. I am dealing with a parent who has paid €5,000 to a private provider in Galway and whose son's course has since gone fully online. I met a representative of the students' union at the National University of Ireland, Galway, NUIG, last week, which is dealing with about 30 families seeking refunds from the same accommodation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome that 200 additional people have been moved into that service to reduce the backlog. As the Minister has acknowledged, there are huge difficulties. While I appreciate that getting money into people's pockets was the priority during Covid, the Minister also acknowledged that there are huge difficulties for people trying to get PPS numbers for various purposes, such as taking up a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to long delays for persons applying for PPS numbers; the number of applications pending a decision; if additional resources have been put in place to assist with the backlog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39997/20]