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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (14 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Roadmap for Social Inclusion contains a commitment to develop a benchmarking approach for use in adjusting the value of State pension payments. The approach proposed by the Department, known as the smoothed earnings approach, was subsequently endorsed by the Pensions Commission. Government subsequently decided that the Department of Social Protection would, in submitting budget...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024) See 5 other results from this answer

Verona Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carers allowance/benefit, including half carers payments, in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7084/24]

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Wall: ...welcome to our distinguished visitors. Given the good news the Minister has brought forward in respect of those in full-time education up to the age of 18, I will again raise the issue of foster carers. I know the Minister announced in the budget an additional payment of €75 for foster carers, €25 of which came into place from 1 January. Given the good news in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

...never forget how they heard it and their families will never forget how they died. Both for the patients and for the people involved, as in an individual who is dying and who dies, and the family carers who are those they know and trust around them, all have a spirituality which is their own. People see spiritually genuinely in art, music-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the addition of young carers as a target group for educational supports, such as Tusla’s school completion programme, given the ESRI’s findings that young people who care for a relative are less likely to move on to higher education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal on behalf of a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6081/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the progress to date in determining an application for carers allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6485/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

John McGuinness: 452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the payment of carers allowance and arrears due will be made immediately in the case of a person (details supplied). [6548/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Payments (13 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...often be short-term and that legislating for all possible scenarios would be impractical, it was decided that six months represents a reasonable ‘lead-in’ time before the transfer of Child Benefit to a foster carer, as appropriate.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Ozempic supply interruption for healthcare professionals and patients - glp1-ra-shortage-clinical-advice-ncpd-01112023.pdf (hpra.ie). I recognise that medicine shortages can be challenging for patients, carers, healthcare professionals and their teams. Based on shortages notified to the HPRA, this matter has been the subject of engagement across Health Service stakeholders. Where at all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (13 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 606. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of recommendation No. 7 of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants; if he will consider establishing a joint labour committee to cover the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6581/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...an illness called functional neurological disorder, FND. She has limb paralysis in both legs and in her left arm. She suffers from extreme pain and seizures. She has been turned down for home carer hours by the HSE on two grounds. The first is that, at 28, she has not reached the age of 65 and is therefore not eligible. The second ground is that her illness is not recognised. The HSE...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: .... The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act was enacted on 4 April 2023 and represents a significant advance in terms of workplace entitlements for all employees, parents and carers in particular. The right to request remote working will be available to all employees under the Act. The right to request flexible working arrangements will be available to parents and carers...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: ...healthcare professional (usually their GP) as having a condition that can be safely treated in a Model 2 hospital. The establishment of LIUs, with explicit selection criteria, has demonstrated that patients and their carers understand these criteria and receive care for broken bones, dislocated joints and other forms of non-major trauma “as locally as is safely possible”....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: .... Actions delivered by various Government departments and agencies include the following: -Legislating for the right of all workers to request remote working, and the right of parents and carers to request other flexible working arrangements, through the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023. -The legislation was signed into law on the 4th of April 2023 and will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (8 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Thomas Pringle: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if foster carers will be included in the access to the State pension (contributary) measures (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5794/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Creed: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a carers allowance application (details supplied). [5925/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Pensions (8 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am aware that eligibility for the State Pension (Contributory) is an area of genuine concern for foster carers. The Deputy may be aware that the Department of Social Protection has some measures available to recognise caring periods outside of paid employment in the calculation of a State Pension payment. Credit for Home Caring Periods may be awarded to a maximum of 20 years and foster...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024) See 36 other results from this debate

Seán Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is to engage with representatives from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Family Carers Ireland on the health needs of persons with dementia and the services available to them. I am pleased to welcome from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland Mr. Andy Heffernan, chief executive officer, Ms Clodagh Whelan, advocacy manager, and Dr. Laura O'Philbin, research and...