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National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this strategy and I hope we will see quick and thorough implementation. I was struck by the word "choice" on page 12. It is one of the values that underpins this strategy, but the Government must create the spaces where people have a choice. It is up to the Minister and the Government to ensure there are choices. For example, today people with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 422. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a decision will be made on an employment permit appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Department funding for a school (details supplied) that is left over from completed works can be re-directed in view of damage caused by such works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a national phone line where applicants of the vacant home scheme seeking information and support with their application can call in view of the complexity of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48738/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the stress and difficulties, delays in local authorities paying for works carried out under the vacant homes scheme is causing for homeowners; the steps he and the Government will take to reduce these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the stress and difficulties the current requirements to prove vacancy when seeking to avail of the vacant homes scheme is causing for homeowners; the steps he and the Government are taking to address this and ensure works can begin on the relevant properties in a timely manner; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances under which a section five requirement can be waived in relation to applications for the vacant homes scheme; if he will reconsider or expand these circumstances in view of the current housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 738. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if teachers who take a career break to work abroad, and whose contracts will not resume until September, are entitled to avail of jobseekers supports on their return to Ireland while looking for a job prior to the reopening of schools in September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48122/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (17 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 908. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are discussions in relation to a former convent in a location (details supplied) to be used as an IPAS centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of difficulties in accessing the blue parking badge for people with additional needs who are mobile but cannot walk unaided; if he will review the criteria for this scheme to ensure those who need it can access it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44619/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) was refused the blue parking badge on the grounds that they can walk unaided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44620/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 547. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reform the PME refund to make it non-taxable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Promotion (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 728. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason, Rathcroghan given the significance of it to the origins of Halloween, it was excluded from the recently launched “Ireland, Home of Halloween” initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Promotion (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 729. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives currently in place to encourage tourism in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47130/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to a new school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for replacement of the nearest school rule; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial and other supports available for transport to and from school for students who due to student place shortages could not register for their nearest school and consequently attend another school, in circumstances where there is no space available on their bus route for concessionary tickets; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time it is taking for CAS funding to be drawn down for the development of domestic violence refuges; the length of time for each stage of the process when it comes to funding the purchase safe homes, in durations of weeks, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44491/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the impact of the length of time it is taking to drawdown funding, via CAS, on organisations being able to purchase properties for safe homes, as sellers will not wait; the action he will take to reduce these long waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44492/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 1109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine ways to make CAS funding more accessible and quicker to access for the purchase of safe homes and the development of domestic violence refuges, given the need to build capacity, particularly where there is none. [44494/25]