Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Rural Schemes

Claire Kerrane

78. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagement she has had with the Department of Transport in relation to the funding of the local improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49835/21]

Rail Network

Claire Kerrane

78. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Transport if Irish Rail will increase the number of carriages from four to six on the 17:20 Galway to Dublin train. [49366/21]

Tax Appeals Commission

Claire Kerrane

118. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of recruiting four additional assistant principal officer case managers for the Tax Appeals Commission. [49367/21]

Departmental Bodies

Claire Kerrane

148. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the agencies or organisations under the remit of her Department that have boards in which members have an obligation to appear before committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas in tabular form. [49368/21]

Education Schemes

Claire Kerrane

245. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost in 2022 of increasing the funding for the school completion programme by 10%. [49364/21]

Disability Services

Claire Kerrane

322. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if increasing the rate of domiciliary care allowance has been considered with regard to the cost of disability and the cost of parenting older children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49339/21]

Fuel Poverty

Claire Kerrane

323. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to include recipients of the part-time job incentive scheme reflecting the fact that recipients will have been in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for 15 months before moving to the part-time job incentive scheme and are restricted in the hours they can work whilst on the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49349/21]

Departmental Expenditure

Claire Kerrane

362. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of hiring an extra 400 social workers and 160 aftercare workers, respectively. [49363/21]

An Garda Síochána

Claire Kerrane

429. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Justice the number of new unmarked Garda vans that came into the fleet in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and the number of unmarked vans withdrawn from the fleet during the same period. [49361/21]

Hospital Services

Claire Kerrane

519. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant gastroenterologists based in Roscommon University Hospital in each of the years of 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and if this number will be further increased. [49370/21]

Hospital Services

Claire Kerrane

520. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant paediatric dermatologists based in Portiuncula University Hospital in each of the years of 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and if this number will be further increased. [49371/21]

Health Services

Claire Kerrane

521. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the number and locations of child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, units that accept admissions during out of hours periods in tabular form. [49372/21]

Hospital Staff

Claire Kerrane

548. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health if staffing in the psychiatric unit at Roscommon University Hospital is at full capacity; and the number of vacancies in the unit since January 2021 to date, by month, in tabular form. [49482/21]

Hospital Staff

Claire Kerrane

549. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to increase the number of neurology nurse specialists in University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49485/21]

Fishing Industry

Claire Kerrane

663. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if salmon farm licences that have ceased to operate at sites for a continuous period of more than two years will be revoked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49502/21]

Employment Support Services

Claire Kerrane

1. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the tendering process for employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48968/21]

Departmental Schemes

Claire Kerrane

3. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider introducing a new payment scheme for bereaved parents following the death of a child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48969/21]

Fuel Poverty

Claire Kerrane

5. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to establishing a discretionary fund to assist households with utility costs and debt given rising energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48970/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Claire Kerrane

94. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if there will be a review of the rates of payment for the parent’s leave and benefit scheme to ensure that parents can afford taking up the leave including with regard to situations in which employers previously topped-up salaries of parents availing of this scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48201/21]

Social Welfare Payments

Claire Kerrane

100. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to extend the parent’s leave and benefit to all parents of children born after November 2019 given that the current legislation excludes parents of children born by surrogacy; if he will ensure that lone-parents can avail of the full ten-weeks of the benefit and leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48200/21]