John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I agree that proper conversations are necessary. There is also an urgent need to review the means threshold for carer's allowance. It must be reviewed and I ask the Minister and Department to undertake that immediately. It is far too restrictive. Carers must often give up work to allow themselves to give care. The Minister said that she does not make up numbers but she gave two different figures for increasing the earnings disregard. In her first contribution, she said it would cost €55 million and, in her second, she said it would be €73 million.

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