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Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: My colleague, an Teachta Mairéad Farrell, has repeatedly raised the crisis in the apprenticeship system, with the major backlog and waiting time for off-the-job training. Yesterday I was contacted by a young person in Roscommon who is one of the 9,000 waiting to complete that training. He was due to start phase 2 of the training in February 2024 but has been told it will not start...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Okay. Were there any changes in the terms of approval at that point in 2021 from what was there previously?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: That is fine. It would be good to know if there were any changes to the terms of approval in 2021. I refer to the role of the Department, which is limited. The Minister of State said it has oversight of discharge by IFFPG of the terms of its approval. Aside from putting in place the terms of approval that run for a five-year period, does the Minister of State or his Department engage with...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: It really is inexcusable that in 2024 children in this State cannot easily access special class places when they need to. It is a disgrace that, year on year, parents are left worried sick, stressed and battling - as they do for everything when they have a child who has additional needs - to find a place to send them to school. This really has to end. Every child that needs a class...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach. I thank the officials for coming in and for the opening statement. To begin, it would be good to get their read on where forestry is at overall since the start of the new programme. How do they assess where we are with forestry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I have one or two more quick questions and then I will finish as others also want to contribute. At this point, are the witnesses concerned about the conditions under the new programme, which they described as onerous for some people? Under the maps for various conditions, large swathes of the country are essentially cancelled out. At least looking at it from the outside, people might...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Last month, Aircoach pulled the Galway to Dublin bus route. It served AIT in Athlone and Portiuncula hospital, Ballinasloe. This followed Bus Éireann Expressway pulling its service from Galway to Dublin, which also served routes for students going to college, hospital appointments and Dublin Airport. The pulling of public transport routes flies in the face of encouraging people to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: This is my tenth time to raise Ballaghaderreen and the need for additional practical resources. It has received refugees and international protection persons for seven years now and has nothing to show for it. We have to battle for an extension for the local school. At long last, there has been movement. Funding for the childcare facility has been pulled and we are awaiting a decision on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to extending recent changes to the consideration of child maintenance as means for social welfare payments to the housing assistance payment, given the recognition that one parent families are at a higher risk of poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19447/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: It will be important to see how many, if any, of the 867 applications made have been refused for whatever reason to allow us to understand if there is an issue there. If a stakeholder group of women farmers set up to represent women farmers is raising an issue of access to this scheme, it would be worthy of consideration by the Minister of State. Perhaps when this fourth tranche closes, she...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister of State confirm the figures, namely that 867 applications were received and that 333 of those were approved? Can she advise if any have been refused? She will be well aware that the women in agriculture stakeholder group has raised concerns about the eligibility criteria. Last summer, when it was introduced, it flagged its fear that it would lock some women out of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I ask the Minister about the long-awaited scheme for the group known as the forgotten farmers. In our last round of questions back in February, the Minister advised that his Department was looking at establishing a system, but there is still no detail about what that scheme would look like. I have met with farmers who are part of this cohort known as the forgotten farmers. They are really...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I appreciate and acknowledge that the Minister has committed to this group of farmers that he will come up with a scheme that will financially support them, given they did lose out. At one point, the scheme was to be prepared in the first quarter of 2023. It was then to be published in May 2023. The system was being put together in February, and it is now April 2024. In a number of weeks,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I appreciate that a good chunk of time was taken up yesterday with statements on what the Minister has done to support and assist farmers given the very difficult weather conditions of the past few months. I want to ask specifically about the €100 per hectare payment that he announced for the tillage and horticulture sectors. When will we have more detail on this? Could he advise us...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I am sharing time with Deputies Browne and Conway-Walsh. While these statements are welcome, they would have been more timely a number of weeks ago, when the issue was very much at the fore. Perhaps together we could have looked at measures that were needed, in consultation with farmers, the farming organisations and the Opposition, given the difficult and challenging weeks and months...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister of State for his response. All we need to know now is how soon he will meet the Attorney General and when we will know what the Attorney General has come up with and how long that is going to take. We are being asked every day for an update. Every day the water is rising. We are getting some little bit of relief now due to the rain not falling, but there it really...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: It is good to be able to stand here with my constituency colleagues and speak to Deputy O'Donnell, as a Minister of State, who has been down to Lough Funshinagh and seen it with his own eyes because one really has to see it to believe it. He will be well aware of the trauma of older people, in particular, in that community, looking at their life's work totally ruined before their eyes and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the OPW’s response to ongoing flooding and rising waters at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon. [17597/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the emergency solution for ongoing flooding and rising waters at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon. [17596/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fuel Prices (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on fuel excise increases given the financial pressure many farmers are facing at this time and the additional strain higher fuel costs could add; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17734/24]