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Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We are back in here talking about carers and I really welcome the opportunity and thank the Regional Independent Group. The fact is that we are all going to talk about the huge savings to the State through the great effort that is put in by carers and how we could not operate without them but we still fail in delivering for them. We could probably have this conversation forever and we are...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Ring: I thank the Deputy. He has had more time than anybody else. I call Deputy Sherlock.

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I rise to support the motion and while we acknowledge that the Government is not opposing the motion, they are certainly not supporting it. That has to be said. The motion is very clear and succinct. It is refreshing that there is such brevity in the wording of a motion.

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion and affording us the opportunity to again discuss the important work of family carers, and the need to review and reform supports for them. Family carers have long been held up as the crucial pillar of care and support in Ireland. We have various strategies and documents referring to the important role that family carers play in...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: I commend the Regional Group on giving us the opportunity to discuss this. The issue of carer's allowance is something on which every TD and Member of Parliament has been inundated, probably for years now, by families with people with disabilities, or those with a relative who has an operation, comes home from hospital and needs constant care. As was said, most of the people doing the care...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank the Regional Group for bringing the motion forward at this timely junction before the budget. Every single Deputy either knows someone who is a carer or perhaps has a family member who is a carer. We have all come across cases of people who are just beyond the threshold to receive the carer's allowance. For example, John lives with his wife in County Wexford. His wife has...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an nGrúpa Reigiúnach agus le Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh mar gheall ar an obair atá déanta acu ar an rún seo. I thank the Regional Group and Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh for their work on the motion. Aontú supports the end of the means test for the carer's allowance. The reason we support it is that, no matter what background one is from or...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We have had this discussion time and again, and several words emerge time and again. Recognition and respect are a great deal of it, but not just recognition and respect. The fact is that when one looks at people in poverty or at risk of poverty in Ireland, three categories of people, namely, people with disabilities, single parents and carers, are consistently up near the top. I...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Matt Shanahan: First, I commend Cait NicAmhlaoibh, our Regional Group parliamentary assistant, for her help. The Regional Group previously brought forward a motion on these issues in February. We continue to press for the rights of family carers and for carers to be formally and properly recognised for the value, contribution and intrinsic good they offer our State. Would the Minister of State be...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Family carers represent one eighth of the Irish population and have long been the cornerstone of care provision in the country. Whether it is caring for an ageing parent, a spouse with a chronic illness or a child with special needs, these remarkable individuals demonstrate unwavering commitment day in and day out. The means test for carer's allowance is no longer fit for purpose and is...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Verona Murphy: This is my fourth time in 12 months to stand in this House to advocate for carers and the abolition of the means test. Seeing as most of what we say seems to fall on deaf ears, I am disappointed, not with respect to the Minister of State, but because we do not have the senior Minister here to deal with this. There are more than 500,000 carers in this country. One fifth of the population...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Joe O'Brien: The Government is not opposing the motion put forward by the Deputies. I welcome the opportunity this morning to discuss the important issue of the carer supports provided by Department of Social Protection. I thank the Deputies for bringing forward this motion. It is a very timely discussion. Next Tuesday, the Government will be announcing a package of measures under budget 2025. As...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Cathal Berry: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle agus cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I am delighted to be in the Chamber today to again speak on behalf of the carers of Ireland. I accept the Minister of State's bona fides in this regard. I know it is an area he is interested in. While our intentions are quite similar, where we differ is in emphasis. We are very much in...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Noel Grealish: I thank my colleagues and Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh for bringing this motion before the House. I also thank the Minister of State for being here this morning. It is a very important motion and I hope the Government will support it. As my colleague Deputy Canney said, I hope this will be included in the forthcoming budget. I am sure there is not a single person in this House who does not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That was not a precedent. It was just an exception.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is occasionally good to be regarded as the exception.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 9.50 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 9.58 a.m. Sitting suspended at 9.50 a.m. and resumed at 9.58 a.m.

Message from Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Message from Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Justice has completed its detailed scrutiny of the Seller's Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021 and, in accordance with Standing Order 178, has recommended that, for the reasons outlined in its report, the Bill should proceed to Committee Stage.

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)