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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 21 March 2023, if he will examine including the widower’s or surviving civil partner (contributory) pension as a qualifying payment for the tenant purchase scheme considering it is contributions-based and has the same rates as the State pension (contributory) which does...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Energy Prices (4 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if any supports are offered by energy companies to assist customers with an illness (details supplied) with more expensive energy bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20986/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I raise the case of Robert Pether, which I have previously raised in this House. Mr. Pether has now spent two years in a Baghdad prison after being imprisoned following a dispute between his employer and the Iraqi Government. In March last year, the United Nations working group on arbitrary detention released a report on his detention. The group found it to be in breach of international...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their opening statements, which contained a lot of detailed and helpful information. My first questions are for Gas Networks Ireland. Will its representatives speak to the Government supports that exist to allow us to do what we need to do? Do they believe the renewable heat obligation that has been proposed by the Government to support the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: It was ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Even if those four years were taken out, to get to the scale we need to get to, if we decide that is where we are going, which it clearly is, it will be our job here to ensure that is improved hugely if we are going to get to where we want to be. That plant is the only one Mr. Murray cited in his statement. He mentioned it a few times. He has mentioned 100 jobs created by that plant,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: That is a big positive for any rural area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: When it comes to supplying local farmers, how many farms would one AD plant supply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Finally, Ms Doyle mentioned being mindful of communities. Mr. Finan from IrBEA referred to biogas plants being welcomed and others meeting sustained objections locally. He spoke about taking the lessons from communities. We will expand these AD plants. There will be a role, and fears and risks, which have been discussed a little, for really rural communities. Taking that as an example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: To conclude, the community buy-in is really important. If we are going to have AD plants here, there and everywhere, and more than likely a lot of them are going to be in rural communities, that engagement from the very beginning is really important. It does not always happen. Witnesses have spoken about the importance of education, but if this is just foisted on a rural community, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I have a couple of questions. Social acceptance and community buy-in was spoken about. That was something we discussed a lot with the groups that appeared before the committee previously. It is obviously very important because we are looking at potentially moving from ten to 20 AD plants in Ireland today to possibly 100 or 150. In many cases, we will see these plants being established in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: That will be very important and will be key. On the 5.7 TWh target that has been set for 2030, does Teagasc know approximately how many AD plants that will equate to in order for us to reach that target? Different figures were given during our last hearing. Is there even a rough figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Planning was the other issue that came up. It was mentioned in Teagasc's opening statement. Biocore representatives stated the planning for the plant it cited was submitted in 2007 and was granted, fully finished, in 2017. There was a judicial review and other issues but they said, more or less, that if those issues were taken out, it would take approximately four years. If we are to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I have some questions for BioCore. If we are going from ten or 20 plants to 100, 150, 200, or whatever the figure it is, that in itself will be a challenge. Mr. Murray mentioned lengthy planning processes as a barrier in his opening statement, which is, unfortunately, often the case. He used the example of Ballaghaderreen. How long was it from when the planning permission application went...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 Implementation Plan will be published; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise regarding planning exemptions in relation to the change of use of a property from commercial to residential; how compliance with building regulations and fire safety are to be established; if it is a requirement that the buildings concerned must be vacant for a two-year period prior to commencement of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (27 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 237. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the obligations that are on employers to furnish employees with payslips; if there is an obligation on employers to provide payslips in paper format where employees cannot access online systems for payslips; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20083/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (27 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the next steps in the process for the scoping inquiry into historical sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19985/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (27 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills who funds workers (details supplied) at an organisation; if their pay comes from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20084/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Yesterday, young people from across Ireland, who are involved in Macra na Feirme, began a 14-hour walk to Government Buildings from Athy. They are taking a stand for rural Ireland. For many of us born and raised there, there is nowhere else we would rather live. In fact, there is nowhere else we see our futures. Macra, in its campaign, is raising eight key issues around access to...