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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the types of inspections carried out by social welfare inspectors; and the procedures for such inspections. [27955/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints made in respect of social welfare inspectors in each of the years 2012 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [27956/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the fuel allowance will be paid to those in receipt of the State pension paid every second week; the way in which those receiving the fuel allowance as a weekly payment will receive it when they are not receiving their State pension weekly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27962/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who previously received the back to school clothing and footwear allowance automatically but did not in 2020 as their Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment put them over the threshold; the number of back to school clothing and footwear allowance applicants who were subsequently reviewed following the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on each of the three payment rates of the pandemic unemployment payment; the number of new applications for the pandemic unemployment payment since restrictions were introduced in counties Dublin and Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27964/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the interdepartmental review into community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27988/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 373. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the practice of general practitioners charging medical card holders for blood tests, routine and otherwise, with some charges as high as €40; if the HSE will be requested to review the practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27968/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 374. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of carrying out a blood test including all associated costs per test. [27969/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Oct 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the process in which medical card holders charged for blood tests by their general practitioner can apply to the HSE for reimbursement; the length of time this process takes for persons; the number of applications received for reimbursement in 2017, 2018 and 2019; if he is satisfied with the current process; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Child Poverty: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I too welcome this motion and commend the Social Democrats on bringing it forward. Before we ever heard of Covid-19 the Government was telling us about low unemployment, plenty of jobs and Ireland being the fastest growing economy in the EU but what good is any of that when we have children going hungry, are cold in their own homes and some who are without any home living in bed and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of plans by Ireland to maximise the European Structural and Investment Funds for the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27672/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of co-financing that will be available under the next round of the European Structural and Investment Funds for each region in Ireland. [27673/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated European Structural and Investment Funds that will be available to Ireland over the coming period; and the grounds on which funding will be distributed among the regions. [27675/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Programmes (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the PEACE programme for the next seven years. [27674/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the European Structural and Investment Funds are best operated and implemented at a level as close as possible to the grassroots; the consideration he has given to using an integrated territorial investment to ensure that regions can effectively implement the spending in their own areas; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Telecommunications Infrastructure (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a large number of phone masts have been erected in an area (details supplied); if the erection of such masts is communicated beforehand with local residents; if there is a requirement for such communication to be made beforehand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27403/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost to reinstate the pre-17 September 2020 payment rates of €203 and €350 for the pandemic unemployment payment for the time period of 1 January to 31 March 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27459/20]

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I commend my colleague, Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, on bringing forward this motion on behalf of the many fishing families across the State, who I am sure will be watching this evening and listening to all contributions. I visited Arranmore Island recently as part of my role as party spokesperson for the islands. It was the first of a number of island trips I hope to make in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (29 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to plans being considered by his Department to centralise funding under the European Regional Development Fund, taking it away from being managed by the regions and the impact that such plans would have in view of the need for such funding in rural areas across the northern and western region; and if he...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I was contacted yesterday by a parent whose daughter is about to start college at UCD. Her timetable indicates that she will attend on campus for three days between now and January, yet the university is seeking full payment for her on-campus accommodation. The student and her parent have been told that they must pay up by this evening or her place will be cancelled. I acknowledge that the...