Results 1-20 of 792 for in 'Dáil debates' speaker:Claire Kerrane

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...

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...

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

Claire Kerrane: 93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with the Minister for Health on the provision of additional medical supports for communities where Ukrainians and international protection persons have arrived; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18966/24]

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

Claire Kerrane: The Minister will be well aware of the increased pressure in many of our communities where Ukrainians and international protection persons have arrived and been welcomed, in many cases. I have raised Ballaghaderreen with the Minister many times and the pressure health services there are under. If someone moves into the area now, he or she cannot get a GP. Both GP surgeries in the town are...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: It is hard to fathom, when diesel and petrol prices are higher than they have been for years, when we have seen a 30% increase in costs in the last three years and when, since January, there has been a 13 cent per litre increase in the price of petrol and a 9 cent per litre increase in the price of diesel, that the Minister chose to increase that further on 1 April and to increase it again...

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: 63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the women farmers' capital investment scheme under TAMS III; if there has been, or will be, a review of eligibility criteria for the scheme, given concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18242/24]

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

Claire Kerrane: My question is on the capital investment scheme for women farmers under TAMS. Will the Minister of State give an update on the number of applications approved to date. Given the issues that have been raised about locking out women farmers from accessing the scheme in the first place, will she review the eligibility criteria?

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: 58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the proposal to bring forward a solution for the group known as the "forgotten farmers", given he has advised that his Department has been working on establishing systems for the roll-out of a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18241/24]

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

Claire Kerrane: As the Minister has said, this issue was identified back in 2015 and 2016. It has now been nearly a decade since then. In the past ten years, I do not believe it is fair or makes much sense, given this Government has now been in place for four years. If the Department was going to establish a system in February, it is now April. Given there are no details of the scheme or what it will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: The Minister of State is asking those affected to use the reconstitution scheme, but we all know what the independent review thought about that scheme, namely that it was insufficient. In fact, the review went much further than that in its criticism of the scheme. Why would we ask farmers and others affected to avail of a scheme that, following examination, has been found to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: No, I did not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: True.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 56. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the awaited strategy to address ash dieback will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18246/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: When will the Minister publish the action plan and strategy for ash dieback? It is now seven months since the independent review was published. Farmers affected by ash dieback in particular, of whom I have met many, are on their knees. I have never met a group of farmers so down, depressed and worried, yet the action plan is nowhere to be seen. Every reply I get states that it will be in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: It really is not good enough to keep using the phrase "the very near future". I have been getting that in replies for months. It has been seven months. I met with farmers in Galway a number of weeks ago. I met some in Wexford two weeks ago. They are broken. They put significant work into the plantations and they are dying. They are being left. It has been years and they are waiting...