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Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Employment Support Services
Claire Kerrane
404. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans for current job clubs in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33058/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Pension Provisions
Claire Kerrane
423. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of abolishing the means test for the blind pension. [33518/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Social Welfare Schemes
Claire Kerrane
424. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the qualified child increase by €1 for children under the age of 12 and €1 for children over the age of 12 respectively. [33519/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Social Welfare Schemes
Claire Kerrane
425. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the carer’s support grant to €2,000. [33520/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Social Welfare Schemes
Claire Kerrane
426. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending the fuel allowance for one additional week. [33521/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Social Welfare Schemes
Claire Kerrane
427. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of bringing the current young jobseeker’s rate of €112.70 per week up to the full rate of €203. [33522/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Social Welfare Schemes
Claire Kerrane
428. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the jobseeker’s transitional payment scheme age cut-off to 18 years of age. [33523/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Social Welfare Schemes
Claire Kerrane
429. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of providing rent supplement to survivors of domestic violence in 2020. [33524/21]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Claire Kerrane
519. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to allowing park run events in counties Roscommon and Longford to return; his plans to allow park runs and other sporting events to return with social distancing guidelines in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25855/21]
Thu, 17 Jun 2021
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Departmental Expenditure
Claire Kerrane
347. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the vote headings and sub-headings for her Department in tabular form. [32544/21]
Thu, 17 Jun 2021
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Pensions Reform
Claire Kerrane
353. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 5 May 2021, the action that has been taken to ensure that those receiving pension payments overseas are no longer subject to bank charges in recognition of the reduction these charges cause to pension payments as a result of recent charges which were not in place before; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32677/21]
Thu, 17 Jun 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Claire Kerrane
367. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans for on-campus learning for third-level students for the upcoming academic year; if this will be a matter for each individual college or university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32526/21]
Thu, 17 Jun 2021
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Departmental Expenditure
Claire Kerrane
421. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the vote headings and sub-headings for her Department in tabular form. [32545/21]
Wed, 16 Jun 2021
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National Broadband Plan
Claire Kerrane
44. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 222 of 3 June 2021, the number of premises connected and complete under the National Broadband Plan in counties Galway and Roscommon to date in tabular form. [32175/21]
Wed, 16 Jun 2021
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Social Welfare Schemes
Claire Kerrane
164. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the supports in place for persons in receipt of the carer’s allowance and who have been in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment; if there has been consideration for those carers who cannot return to work as yet and who also cannot sign up to jobseeker’s allowance as a result of their part-time employment and means-testing requirement of the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32210/21]
Wed, 16 Jun 2021
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Departmental Expenditure
Claire Kerrane
246. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of developing the 400 remote working hubs and the requisite support services identified in Our Rural Future and for additional remote working hubs in each of the 31 local authority areas. [32288/21]
Wed, 16 Jun 2021
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Local Authorities
Claire Kerrane
247. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of reviewing the local authority participation structures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32289/21]
Tue, 15 Jun 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Claire Kerrane
267. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Transport the preparations that have been carried out to prepare for the use of the digital green certificates to allow ease of travel for those wishing to travel abroad in summer 2021; if those who are fully vaccinated will be able to travel without any restrictions or quarantine imposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31443/21]
Tue, 15 Jun 2021
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European Court of Justice
Claire Kerrane
607. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a resolution of the 2008 Court of Justice of the European Union ruling in a case (details supplied) is expected; the reason there has not been a public consultation held on the substitute consent application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31261/21]
Tue, 15 Jun 2021
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State Examinations
Claire Kerrane
776. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education her plans to ensure students with conditional university offers can receive their leaving certificate results before the outlined date of 3 September 2021 in recognition of different administrative timeframes of universities overseas and to ensure students can access their chosen university courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31250/21]