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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme which is the safety net within the overall social welfare system, helps eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependents. Supports provided under the SWA scheme can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of certain expenses, as well as single...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is responsible for the administration and payment of a range of supports to assist an eligible person who is parenting alone including the One-Parent Family Payment and Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment, described below: • One-Parent Family Payment is a payment for parents under 66 years who are parenting without the support of a partner and whose youngest child...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions (HRC). I can confirm that my Department reviewed the DA payment of person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There is a range of supports provided by the Community Welfare Service (CWS) under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme. These supports can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of certain expenses, as well as single Additional Needs Payments (ANPs). The Department may make an ANP to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible person...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...new community centres across nine counties. In June this year, I was delighted to announce a further round of funding to support community groups to upgrade and refurbish the community facilities in their areas. The Community Centre Investment Fund 2024 will provide funding of between €10,000 and €100,000 towards capital costs for the refurbishment of existing community...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 318, 319 and 320 together. My Department's CLÁR scheme is a targeted investment programme that provides funding for small scale infrastructural projects in rural areas that experience disadvantage and significant levels of de-population. The 2024 CLÁR programme was launched on the 12th April last. The measures being funded under CLÁR 2024 are:...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...across nine counties. In June this year, Minister Humphreys was delighted to announce a further round of funding to support community groups to upgrade and refurbish the community facilities in their areas. The Community Centre Investment Fund 2024 will provide funding of between €10,000 and €100,000 towards capital costs for the refurbishment of existing community...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 324, 325, 326 and 331 together. My Department provides a range of supports which are available to Men's Sheds. Last November, I announced current funding of €1 million to support Men’s Sheds throughout the country. The initiative saw grants of up to €3,000 provided to 378 Men’s Sheds nationwide to assist them with running costs...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Tidy Towns (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...;1,000 and €4,000 was provided to groups to assist them in preparing for the 2024 Competition, with the added benefits of helping to make our towns and villages better places to live, work and visit. My officials are currently in the process of designing the next iteration of a Tidy Town grant scheme to enable groups prepare for next year’s competition. I would also...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...new community centres across nine counties. In June this year, I was delighted to announce a further round of funding to support community groups to upgrade and refurbish the community facilities in their areas. The Community Centre Investment Fund 2024 will provide funding of between €10,000 and €100,000 towards capital costs for the refurbishment of existing community...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Tidy Towns (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...and €4,000 was provided to groups to assist them in preparing for the 2024 Competition, with the added benefits of helping to make our towns and villages better places to live, work and visit. My officials are currently in the process of designing the next iteration of the Tidy Town grant scheme to enable groups prepare for next year’s competition. I would also encourage...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Reviews (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...includes for example, our people strategy, leadership development, our communications strategy, and how we can use ICT to support more efficient and effective delivery. Of the 86 actions in the implementation plan, 74 are either complete, or are implemented and embedded within the processes of the organisation. Both the OCR and the OCR implementation plan are available here - The...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...and economic benefits made possible by digital technologies and to optimise digital connectivity to support vibrant, sustainable rural communities. In 2021, I launched connectedhubs.ie, a shared online booking and payments platform for remote working hubs, both urban and rural to offer a suite of booking and hub management applications to members of the network and their customers. There...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...340, inclusive, together. My Department was established in 2017, and operates a large number of schemes aimed at supporting both rural development and community development. These interventions are improving not just rural areas, town centres and urban areas, but also strengthening the communities that live there. The main rural development programmes, which underpin Our Rural Future...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...aims to deliver a range of actions to rural communities over the lifetime of the policy. It supports a broad range of activities which aim to respond to the diversity of the local needs of our rural areas. The programme includes specific funding themes to support Economic Development and Job Creation, Rural Infrastructure and Social Inclusion, and Sustainable Development of Rural...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...the launch of the scheme over €177 million has been allocated to almost 1,800 projects. In line with the policy commitments within the Our Rural Future and Town Centre First policy (TCF), priorities are reviewed at the end of each scheme year to ensure that funding schemes are structured in a way that delivers on key government commitments and provide impactful projects in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...the new Public Library Strategy 'The Library is the Place', which I launched in July last year at the official opening of the new Portlaoise library. The Strategy recognises that public libraries are at the heart of our communities and my Department provides a wide range of funding to support the library service. To date in 2024, I have announced a new Libraries Capital Programme, which...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) supports the improvement of rural roads and laneways that are not usually maintained by local authorities. As part of Our Rural Future, the government is committed to ensuring that the LIS is funded in the future. In April of this year, I announced over €40 million in funding for the 2024 and 2025 Schemes, having secured an additional once off...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Tidy Towns (10 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...and €4,000 was provided to groups to assist them in preparing for the 2024 Competition, with the added benefits of helping to make our towns and villages better places to live, work and visit. My officials are currently in the process of designing the next iteration of Tidy Town grant scheme to enable groups prepare for next year’s competition. I would also encourage...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. I am sorry to hear about the experience that lady had with her mother. We are committed to improving services in the mid-west region. A lot of additional funding has been allocated to UHL by this Government to achieve that. The budget has increased by 59%, to the tune of an additional €158 million, since 2019. Funding increased from €265 million to...