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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...have to be a registered charity or CLG to be able to engage as a DPO. The need to compensate us for our labour is also important, including, for example, travel allowance and childcare. We are carers and we also work. We cannot afford to take time off for multiple consultations. There is the need for accessible information and meetings, whether that is information about the air...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...on care was deliberately chosen by the Government to avoid a concrete and mandatory obligation on the State. Imagine that the Government would do that to the most vulnerable people and their carers and treat them in such a fashion, by trying to undermine and sabotage them by putting such a wording in. These same people were then forced by the Government to canvass for a "Yes" vote. This...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: ...support programmes available in their areas, provided by Tusla, the HSE and their partners in the community and voluntary sectors. All of these services are aimed at supporting parents and carers to be more confident and capable in their parenting role, helping to achieve the best outcomes for children and families.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2024)

Tom Clonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Chathaoirleach, leis an Cheannaire, le Seanadóirí agus na daoine uaisle. I welcome my guest, Lisa Domican. Lisa, like myself, is a parent. She is a full-time carer for her daughter Grace, who is 24 and has autism, ADD, epilepsy and PMDD. She also cares full time for her son Liam, who is 26. They are both beautiful young people. Liam has autism and...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...cities. We cannot become numb to the numerous stories that have surfaced about cycling deaths. We must strive to have a society where these stories are no longer commonplace. In November last year, a 36 year-old carer was killed while cycling to work in Dolphins Barn. That is just one of the eight cyclists killed last year and one of the eight tragic deaths that could have been...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Butler: ...and access to services based on robust evidence. This is really welcome. The Deputy will be aware that in my role, I put in place the strategic workforce advisory group trying to support more carers to come into the role of caring. We have an ageing population and one of the recommendations was around the people who might agree to do X number of hours caring but they would not lose...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has systems for identifying and supporting more vulnerable carers, such as older parents caring for ageing children with disabilities, in order that extra supports could be developed in partnership with other Government agencies. [13553/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...2024 with updates to be published shortly. The most recent progress report was published in October 2023. which can be viewed below: www.gov.ie/en/publication/66dd1-strategic-workforce-advisory -group-on-home-carers-and-nursing-home-healthcare-assistants /.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if he has conducted any census of carers to identify the circumstances of their care, their access to information and support, their age profile, and their capacity to continue; if he will indicate where the findings may be obtained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13528/24]

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: ...enough people are attracted to a career in home help. We will table a Private Members’ motion on the matter of people caring for others. We are looking for a non-means-tested payment for carers. It is high time that was done. We hope that the Government will support our motion and that we will see some action to ensure that people with disabilities and others who need help...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...ten pages that were leaked and published. Those particular ten pages showed that the term "strive", in the Attorney General's view and in mine, was a strong term, was judicable, would have led to additional rights for carers and would potentially have left the State open to litigation and costs. If anything, it supported the arguments the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, made in favour of a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...trust in this Government is on the floor now. There is a political bubble in Ireland between the political establishment, many of the NGOs and some of the media. At the heart of the Government's carers proposal was a promise that it would do everything to help carers, but most people who are either carers or in need of care saw the reality of the Government's lack of delivery. They saw...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Seán Canney: .... I thank him for his friendship and loyalty over the last seven or eight years. In the aftermath of the referendums we had and the Government's insistence that it wanted to do something for carers, will the Government support our Private Member's motion coming before the Dáil next month? We will be seeking the introduction or the initiation of a non-means-tested carers support...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...people. When you look at the chronic state of our health service, the understaffing and under-resourcing of special needs and our failure to vindicate the rights of people with disabilities and carers - all that hardship and suffering - the other side of the coin is record profits for the corporations. Vulture funds and wealth asset management companies are making a fortune. Property...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Duncan Smith: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance to give consideration to committed couples including those with children being jointly assessed for tax purposes and in addition being able to apply for home carer tax credit without being married or being in a civil partnership (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision of an appeal's officer in the recent appeal case for carer’s allowance (details supplied) can reissue to the appellant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11581/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a Carers Allowance appeal by the person concerned was received in that Office on 06 February 2024. The appeal was registered by that office on 08 March 2024. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a Carers Allowance appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 31 August 2023. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Pauline Tully: 735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason self-employed people are not entitled to claim carer's benefit; if she will consider changing the eligibility criteria whereby self-employed people can claim carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12074/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 748. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12317/24]