Results 101-120 of 803 for speaker:Claire Kerrane in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to extend the deadline to submit receipts for the national liming programme past 31 October next, considering basic income support scheme payments have not yet been made and many farmers are facing serious financial constraints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46847/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I want to ask about the national liming programme. While I welcome the fact that the deadline for lime to be spread has been extended, receipts have to be submitted by farmers by Tuesday next. Can there be flexibility in that regard? Many farmers cannot spread lime on their land right now. I do not see why they should have to buy lime at a time when they have had high input costs. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the possibility of utilising Brexit adjustment reserve funding to support farmers before the end of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46771/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister about the Brexit adjust reserve, BAR, fund. There is approximately €150 million remaining in it. The Minister might be able to confirm that figure in his response. Given the importance of the fund and the many crises that farmers are facing across the board, does the Minister intend to spend any more of the money in the fund before returning it to Europe at the end...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister. I share his good wishes for Mr. Dillon. After a very long career, I wish him the very best for a long, happy and healthy retirement. Perhaps the Minister could confirm in his supplementary response the amount of money that is left in the BAR fund. Does he intend to spend anything further on agriculture for farmers? I met representatives of the Irish Grain Growers...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I have raised many times in this House the number of children in my constituency of Roscommon-Galway who are on waiting lists for therapies and psychology services. It is very clear, right around the country, that the numbers are getting worse and the waiting lists are getting longer. Children and others on whatever lists they are on - and there are many - are waiting longer and longer and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I raise the issue of the summer flooding that took place at the Shannon Callows. Once again, farmers and their lands have been absolutely devastated by flooding over the summer months. Farmers are under huge financial pressure. They face absolute wipe-out. They have no silage, hay or fodder for the winter months. They urgently need support from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I listened to the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, speak about all the opposition to the agriculture budget yesterday. Much of the conversation I heard in opposition to the budget was actually from the farm organisations. Much of what they had to say was probably more negative than anything anyone in here said yesterday. That is a fact. When looking at the budget document yesterday,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I want to raise the very dangerous waiting lists under primary care for children in Roscommon and Galway, particularly those children waiting for psychology services. At the moment there are 769 children in Galway waiting for psychology services. Children on the high priority list, and I would imagine they are the most urgent of cases, are waiting for over one year to be seen. Those under...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: It is incredible that in 2023 as another school term begins, we have the long list of issues we have every year. The same issues arise over and over again. Every year, during the summer months, the school transport circus begins. I cannot fathom how it cannot be resolved once and for all. There is a long list of cases in my office coming through from the Roscommon side in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (13 Jul 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 3. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm if he sought a higher funding allocation under the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, as part of the EU multi-annual financial framework, MFF, mid-term review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34634/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Claire Kerrane: There was widespread disgust last night at the vile scenes and blatant disregard for our existing laws shown on the investigative programme by “Prime Time”. Young calves were being kicked, beaten with sticks, dragged by their tails, legs or ears and thrown on and off trailers. These cruel practices by some people in some marts are very much not reflective of how handlers, mart...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "supports the development of a Nature Restoration Regulation, which": "ensures that: — public participation underpins the whole nature restoration planning process; — any such schemes that are developed are voluntary and not mandatory; — those who undertake the nature restoration measures are...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the motion and commend the Rural Independent Group on bringing it forward. We are happy to support the motion. There is a great deal in it and it is important we have this debate and this conversation. As I have said many times, farmers are ready, willing and able to act in regard to climate action. It is farmers who have protected our land for generations. The vast majority...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I spoke yesterday to a paramedic who told me that morale in the ambulance service is in the gutter due to the long-running and ongoing recruitment and retention crisis. We have seen the recent capacity review by the HSE to show that we need to double the workforce in the next three years. We know industrial action has now been voted for. We know that the director of the National Ambulance...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome this motion and commend the Regional Group on bringing it forward. There is an awful lot in it, and a lot that needs to be done in relation to home care and the care of our most vulnerable citizens overall. I want to speak first on those who remain on waiting lists in Roscommon and Galway and across the board, both for home care in the first instance and for additional home care...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Nursing Homes Ireland held a briefing here yesterday to outline the very real crisis facing the sector, one that is laid bare in black and white in a report prepared by PwC. In the past three years, 950 beds have been lost, mainly in rural and regional areas. Some 31 voluntary and private nursing homes have closed, a number of which were in Roscommon and Galway. The report makes three...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister for her statement. I listened to her and her colleagues. One thing that I certainly would not agree with is the idea put forward by the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, to the effect that nobody is talking about the death of rural Ireland anymore. I certainly would not go as far as to say that. A prime example of in this regard is the Macra protest whereby young...

Retained Fire Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I listened to the Taoiseach earlier as he was being questioned by my party leader about the crisis in the retained fire service. He said over and over again that the Government values retained firefighters. The Minister has told us here this evening that he admires them. These are nice words. If the Taoiseach and the Government valued them, however, retained firefighters would not be on...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Sometimes, one does not get one's full prescription. If one gets a prescription for six months, one can collect one or two.