Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I refer to people in receipt of respite care grants. In the case of carers who are looking after people with disabilities and have been overpaid, arrangements have been made to sort out the matter, including stopping their respite care grants in part payment. This is very unfair. Everybody knows that the respite care grant is paid to carers to support the people for whom they are caring, to improve their living accommodation or to take them on a holiday. I would like the Tánaiste to ask the Minister for Social Protection to examine this issue.

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