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Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We should aspire to that and look after our own people. We are spending billions on others and the Government wants to do more of it with this Bill that it is trying to-----

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, let us not go down that road. We are-----

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Thank you very much, Ceann Comhairle. It is a very serious matter.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has to deal with it and be seen to deal with it.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Healy-Rae and Deputy Collins are sharing time.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Michael Collins: I have stood in this Chamber many times and spoken of the work being done by the carers of this country. I have spoken of the amount of money they are saving the State, the personal care they give, which is second to none, yet the thanks these people get is that they are means tested. I can quote case after case, person after person, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. We hear a good deal...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. We can never speak enough about care work and carers in this country. We can all agree that, in a very crude form, carers save the State hundreds of millions of euro per year. We cannot put a price on the care work they do for loved ones and friends. The discrepancies in care pointed out by Family Carers Ireland are quite shocking. The...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Seán Canney: I too welcome the motion and thank Deputies Tully and Ryan for bringing it forward. They are colleagues of mine on the disability matters committee. The motion follows on from one the Regional Group put forward a number of weeks ago, in which we sought for the abolition of means-testing for the carer's allowance. I want to recap some of what was said during the debate on that motion....

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last Saturday, I buried my aunt Jenny O'Leary. Jenny McCarthy was her maiden name. She had been sick for 12 years and her daughter Linda cared for her. Jenny had a lot of issues but she always wanted to stay at home. Even up to two years ago before she stopped communicating, her daughter kept her at home. Linda had to fight for everything from home help hours to increased home help hours...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. It is always welcome to speak on the issues facing carers but particularly so given the report released by Family Carers Ireland last week. The findings of the report are shameful. It is another report about the disgraceful lack of support for carers and those for whom they care and another reminder that life is harder, more stressful and more...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Tully and Patricia Ryan, for their dedicated advocacy on behalf of carers and the elderly and for tabling this motion. It is universally accepted that people with disabilities and their carers are more financially vulnerable than any other section of society. In fact, the Joint Committee on Gender Equality recommended bringing social protection rates for...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Johnny Guirke: This is not the first time I have raised the issue of home care hours being approved but not provided. In a lot of cases not enough hours are provided to clients. One lady in my constituency currently going through cancer was approved home care support months ago but she has yet to receive that care. Care availability remains an issue. It has been highlighted for years but not dealt with....

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Dessie Ellis: There has been a very obvious increase in the number of cases coming in to my constituency office that concern issues around carers. In particular, more people are coming looking for help in getting the carer's allowance or the domiciliary care allowance. Most applications fail because of the strict adherence to section 179(4) of the carers Act. While it is important to have a set of...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: More than 299,000 people identified as unpaid carers in the 2022 census. People aged between 50 and 59 were the group most likely to be providing regular unpaid care. Access to care and the quality of care provided presents challenges for all societies. In Ireland, there was an expectation on women to shoulder unpaid care responsibilities. Today, there continues to be a heavy reliance on...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: I thank Deputy Tully for the motion. I am glad to speak on it because I feel as though I am speaking for the army of invisible people who work 24-7, relying on the extremely modest carer's allowance, with many unable to make ends meet. They are kept under constant scrutiny by the State for that payment, a State that seems more intent on catching them out in some way than helping them,...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Denise Mitchell: Tonight, we ask the Government to listen to the voices of carers, who are stretched beyond their means and have been left to their own devices by Minister after Minister. Carers throughout this State have to fight tooth and nail for services they should be entitled to. The State takes their work for granted and that is reflected in the lack of State assistance. In its most recent report,...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am very happy to be here to address some of the issues raised in the Private Members' motion on carers. Support for carers is a topic that is always on the agenda and it is, of course, an enormously important one that comprises so many different cross-departmental issues. It covers not just health and social care supports but also income supports and housing, as the Deputies clearly...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that Family Carers Ireland's report entitled "The State of Caring 2024" found: — almost three quarters of carers have never received respite; — half of carers have to pay privately for services that should be publicly provided to support their caring role; and — the vast majority of carers are finding it difficult to make...