Results 241-260 of 14,213 for carers

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...placements for children in the care of the State. This is due to a number of factors, including difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff, difficulties in maintaining the number of foster carers, the complexity of the presentation of some children presenting to Tusla, and the unprecedented number of Separated Children Seeking International Protection (SCSIP) requiring Tusla services....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Heather Humphreys: ...Payment for 65 year olds; Treatment Benefit; and Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's (Contributory) Pension. The only benefits that class S PRSI does not provide access to are carer's benefit, health and safety benefit, illness benefit, and occupational injuries benefits. In circumstances where people are ill but do not qualify for illness benefit, my Department...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Frank Feighan: ...-time cannot access Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grants. We have to address this to make sure that people who choose part-time education, either because they already have a job or are carers, benefit from these State supports to complete their degrees. Will the Minister update the House on any plans to reduce the cost of part-time education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...come from? Does it come from the school contribution that parents are asked to make? Is this the responsibility for providing the supports for kids with additional needs again falling back onto parents and carers? Third, as a parent and a carer for an adult with special needs, I see that the damage that inviting section 39 organisations in to do what the State should be doing leads to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...committee. The Minister of State probably would not know now, but perhaps will include it in her response to the committee, whether it is still the case that Ireland includes payments to family carers in the healthcare expenditure we report to the OECD. Is that the norm among the OECD countries? Ireland includes the home care services, the group homes in the community for people with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (28 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the correct level of carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9548/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...markets. Healthcare Assistants may work in Ireland under a General Employment Permit (GEP). In 2023, a minimum annual remuneration of at least €27,000 was required for Healthcare Assistants/Home Carers to receive a GEP. This was proposed to increase to €30,000 in 2024. However, following ongoing engagement with Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

..., there are actually no words in the dictionary.” These necessary bandage changes must often be undertaken by relatives, and this has a significant impact on the quality of life of the family and carers too. A mother who cares for her 20-year-old daughter, who also lives with one of the worst forms of EB, describes the condition as having a profound effect on the physical and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

...We wanted to better understand the extent of this problem and what can be done to address it and, therefore, we funded Dr. Suzanne Denieffe and her team to carry out research, with input from patients, carers, nurses and energy providers. The findings were stark. Only 13% of nurses reported that the homes where they provided support were always adequately warm. One third of nurses had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...to me to be a grossly undermet need. I stood in a constituent's house this week, looking at the care schedule for a gentleman in Carysfort Downs in Blackrock. I looked at all the different carers who were coming in. There were five or six carers every day. This man is at a period of acute need in his life. Looking at the management processes, some carers come two or three times a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...consider a cross-Government initiative to see that everyone gets their entitlements in full? People are losing €250 million in unclaimed tax relief on medical expenses, €280 million in carer's support grant, €62 million in unclaimed GP cards and €140 million in unclaimed working family dividend. Many of these are our most vulnerable families. There are 85,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Paschal Donohoe: ...it is important that we continue with our efforts to get ready to sign this very important protocol, which we acknowledge will be important to those with disabilities in our country and to their carers. On where the process stands at the moment, we had originally planned to progress ratification of the optional protocol after the conclusion of our first progress review in the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the period a person can receive carer's benefit will be increased from 104 to 156 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8686/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer’s allowance (details supplied) will be considered in far greater detail on appeal, and if an oral hearing will be considered. [8909/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Feb 2024)

Pa Daly: 312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a decision in regard to a carer’s allowance appeal in respect of their spouse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9065/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (27 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Holly Cairns: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allocating each application for carer's allowance to a specific staff member in the relevant section of her Department in order to prevent time-consuming repetition of providing information during the application process. [9170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Energy Prices (27 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...severe, entitlement to these social welfare schemes is not provided on the basis of a diagnosis but on the basis of the impact of that diagnosis on the individual concerned and in the case of Disability and Carer's allowance to an assessment of their means. In this way, resources can be targeted to people in most need. The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Cathal Crowe: 324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider revising the long-term carers contribution scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9379/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (27 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: 542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Waterford waiting to be assessed for a carer; and the timeframe for when they will be assessed. [8968/24]