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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Authority (HPRA) is awaiting an update from Rowa Pharmaceuticals Limited regarding the anticipated resupply date in Ireland. I recognise that medicine shortages can be challenging for patients, carers, healthcare professionals and their teams. Medicine shortages are a feature of modern health systems worldwide which have been exacerbated by recent worldwide events. There are a...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...sector but has now been rolled out across the private and voluntary sectors. As Deputies are aware, significant work has taken place on the recommendations of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home healthcare assistants. I reassure them that HSE home support staff recruitment is exempt from the current employment control measures, where the posts are to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (16 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Howlin: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will personally intervene to assist in an appeal to her Department for a domiciliary care allowance and carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) to avoid severe hardship and allow the child to be discharged from hospital and return home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22184/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (16 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

John McGuinness: 203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance submitted in November 2022, which was refused in 2023 and then reconsidered and refused again under review in the name of a person (details supplied), will be approved based on the further information submitted being considered in far greater detail in the appeal process. [22244/24]

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...been Fine Gael health spokesperson. The first of the four objectives I identified is affordability. We now have free GP care for everyone aged under eight and over 70 and for those in receipt of carer's allowance. The means test is being relaxed to the extent that middle-income, working families can now qualify for free GP care. Approximately 50%, if not more, of the population now...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Christopher O'Sullivan: I would like to follow on from Deputy Bruton's question on carers and go a step further by making a plea that we use budget 2025 as an opportunity to once and for all take away the income limit on the means test for carer's allowance. Time and again, every TD has carers coming into his or her office who are €100, €50 or €20 over the means test. There is no flexibility...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the means test for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21960/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Colm Burke: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up-to-date status of a carers allowance application review (details supplied), given that further documentation was provided some time ago; when a decision will be reached; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22026/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (15 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...4 April 2023, and introduces further important entitlements for workers, including leave for medical care purposes for parents of children under 12, and the right to request flexible working for parents and carers. The right to request flexible working for parents and carers and remote working for all employees was commenced on 6 March 2024 following the preparation of a Code of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

...treatment is over. We have people who have been travelling for neurology appointments a couple of times a year for 20 or 30 years. That is a significant period of their lives, and those of the carers who have to accompany them. It may involve people taking a day off work, people getting up extremely early and facing the Galway traffic, which, I believe, is another significant issue....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...the period of high energy prices, Government has continued to support energy consumers to stay warm and well. This includes a €2.2 billion suite of cost-of-living supports to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities as part of budget 2024. My Department is currently developing a revised energy poverty action plan and I would encourage all stakeholders to...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...time. While home care hours and funding have been increased since 2020, waiting lists remain stubbornly high. In February, there were over 5,500 people approved for a home care package but no carer was available. These staffing challenges have only been made worse by the regressive HSE recruitment freeze. That freeze is holding up so much delivery in terms of major healthcare....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Pre-Committee Stage Scrutiny (14 May 2024)

...the entitlements available to working parents and families in recent years. The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 introduced five days leave for medical care purposes for parents and carers, alongside domestic violence leave and a right to request flexible working for parents and carers. Each parent of a child under the age of two can also avail of seven weeks paid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Eileen Flynn: ...one sense. The woman was working for 50 hours a week and being paid €200. I have done a lot of work with MRCI around those who work with impaired people and who come to this country to work as carers. They are treated like rubbish, and we should not accept that in this country. My question to our witnesses is what should we do and not what can we do. What action can we take in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a carer is allowed to accompany a candidate during driver theory tests and driving lessons, including in situations where a candidate has an invisible disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21711/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (14 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...their interest in working on a school-based programme in a Special School. Student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care and nursing and others, including early childcare workers and carers, will also be able to register their interest in working on this year’s Programme. This year also continues with the pilot programme which was developed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (14 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...their interest in working on a school-based programme in a Special School. Student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care and nursing and others, including early childcare workers and carers, will also be able to register their interest in working on this year’s Programme. This year also continues with the pilot programme which was developed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Fitzmaurice: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify if a person (details supplied) over 65 and on over-65 jobseeker’s benefit, not having to actively seek employment and at home on a full-time basis, would be entitled to carer’s support grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 May 2024)

Michael Creed: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an appeal of carer’s allowance application is taking so long. [21237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 May 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Violet-Anne Wynne: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many carer’s allowance applications were received by her Department in 2023; how many applicants were in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21371/24]