Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I may be tied to a location, for example, although I am not physically feeding or toileting people all the time. People may have to be there because the person being cared for has a dicky heart or is at risk from a brain haemorrhage. The person may have advanced Alzheimer's disease and be at risk of going out the door. I could, for example, be sitting down to watch a television programme with that person or get to go out, if I close and lock the door, to go to the farm for an hour or two. Is that a caring period, for example? It is causing absolute chaos with the formulation of the forms.

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