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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (2 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when community safety partnerships will be established; if he is aware that the delay is impacting communities where task forces on antisocial behaviour are unable to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to deliver an affordable housing scheme in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35793/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct local authorities to end the practice of including carer’s allowance as income in the differential rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35792/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether there is a need to review the processes in place for the amalgamations of second level schools; her further views whether the existing consultation process requires updating when two schools are being amalgamated; if amendments have been made to the Report on the Amalgamation of Second Level Schools published in 2001; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are specific rules in place in relation to consultation both in the locality and with past pupils in cases in which two schools are amalgamating; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received for an exemption under residential zoned land tax due to actively farmed land in County Galway and County Roscommon. [35289/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of implementing a pension scheme for foster carers registered with the State and currently providing care to foster children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Uniforms (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider removing the means test as a qualifying criteria for foster carers to access the back-to-school allowance, given the unique circumstances of the children they care for; the annual cost for all children in care to receive this allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when persons (details supplied) can expect a decision on their short-stay holiday visa appeal. [35560/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding an eviction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Care Services (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 626. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of aligning the aftercare allowance to the foster care allowance (FCA) for all foster children in the State aged 18 and to be in receipt of this until they are 23 if living in the foster home, in order to avoid foster families in receipt of the FCA to not lose €125 per week, or in some cases losing the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 657. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to extend the number of therapeutic hubs providing support to children in care across the country; whether more funding will be provided to Tusla to grow the number of therapeutic hubs and to resource them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a policy (details supplied) has been in place for Ennis and Nenagh since 17 August 2023 to protect the rapid response vehicle (RRV) and ensure where an ambulance personnel is not at work, that the advanced paramedic is not taken off the RRV and this policy is not in place in Roscommon, which is also without an emergency unit, as Ennis and Nenagh...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Jul 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if a full HTA application for the drug Veoza has been submitted, and when it is anticipated the HTA will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35598/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (25 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 27 May 2025, to advise which application form is needed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34598/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (25 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 167. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the roll out of regional assessment hubs; the location and status of each; details of who will be working out of these hubs, and their roles; the completion date for roll out, as per location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34611/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (24 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 722. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will examine the new regulations for childminders to ensure that they are not leading to increased paperwork for childminders, who want to be spending time with the children they look after rather than sitting doing paperwork; if she will ensure the additional requirements are as straightforward as possible to ensure good...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (24 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 724. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on a review into administration for childminders as referenced by her at the Joint Committee meeting on children on 12 June in which she advised that “in terms of red tape, a review is ongoing with a view to minimising it. Our purpose is to make things easier, not more difficult, as we go...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (24 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 726. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that communities seeking to establish new childcare facilities are precluded from accessing Building Blocks, the only financial support available, as they are not an existing service; if she will rectify this to ensure the funding is more accessible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34188/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (24 Jun 2025)

Claire Kerrane: 727. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider greater flexibility for Building Blocks, the only financial support available for childcare facilities, where there is an opportunity for a community to buy an existing premises (not new), therefore bringing life back to a closed building, usually in the heart of a town which is an ideal location for a...