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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

...assistants. Some of the changes that were announced this year, including the additional funding for private arrangements, will hopefully help, as well as the recognition of the pay needs of home carers. It is a vital role-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023) See 11 other results from this debate

Helen McEntee: ...the House very much remain with the victims of the appalling attack that took place 12 days ago outside Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire and my thoughts are, in particular, with the young child and her carer who are both still in a critical condition in hospital. Of course, we are all wishing for their full recovery. Deputy McDonald has left the Chamber. My colleagues have responded...

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)

Michael Moynihan: .... There is an awful lot of work going on within the Departments and within the Government to improve the State's provision for people with disabilities, their families, their communities and their carers. It is important as well, however, that we send out a signal. We have ratified the UNCRPD, and a lot of work is going on in Departments on that, but a commitment was given to ratify the...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

Michael McGrath: ...two years, until the end of 2025. Additionally, the main tax credits - personal, employee and earned income - are being increased by €100, which equates to a 5.6% annual increase, from €1,775 to €1,875. Furthermore, the home carer tax credit will be increased by €100 to €1,800, the single person child carer credit will be increased by €100 to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this answer

Heather Humphreys: ...a 100% Christmas Bonus will once again be paid this year to over 1.3 million recipients of long-term social welfare payments. The Christmas Bonus is paid to pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents and long-term unemployed people in recognition of their long-term financial dependence on their social welfare payment for all, or most, of their income. The list of schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Anne Rabbitte: 351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a review of a carer's allowance case (details supplied) in light of the recent changing financial situation for the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53271/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing request for a carer's allowance appeal will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53340/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The legislation provides that a carer can be considered to be providing full-time care and attention to a care...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. The number of CA applications disallowed, awarded on appeal, and awarded on reapplication for 2021, 2022 and to 31 October...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Healy-Rae: 364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will have an application for carer’s allowance reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53669/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing request for a carer's allowance appeal will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53698/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Browne: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for the carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) was rejected despite them providing full-time care to two older neighbours [53725/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention, and show that the care recipient requires full-time care and attention. An...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (5 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...April 2023, and introduces 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 Act also includes provisions to transpose Article 9 of the EU Work Life Balance Directive and provide for a right to request flexible working for parents and carers. Many of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...have not been any notifications of shortages of the 30mg or 60mg Tyvense capsules. There are alternative medicines also available that are authorised for the treatment of ADHD. If patients or their carers cannot source their usual medicine at present, they are encouraged to discuss alternative options with their healthcare provider pending the resumption of normal supply. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Teacher Training (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...do so yesterday at the education committee, but I again offer what I know is the unified solidarity, support and sympathy of the entire House. We are particularly mindful of the children and their carer who were involved in an incident in proximity to a school on Parnell Square. I can confirm for the House that our NEPS psychologists, our school psychologists, have been in the school...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the extent to which a person (details supplied) can retain part of her carer's allowance notwithstanding the fact that her son, after more than 20 years of total dependency on his mother, is now in institutional care, with weekends and special days with his mother; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...over 20 years (1040 weeks). The periods of care-giving do not need to be consecutive. If the person concerned has been caring for incapacitated dependents for over 20 years, they can apply for the Long-Term Carers Contributions (LTCC). If the criteria are met, the equivalent of paid contributions may be attributed to cover caring gaps in their contribution record. The quickest way to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Jim O'Callaghan: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carers in each county receiving a lump sum payment of €400 the week of 27 November 2023, in tabular form. [53175/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...at the start of the year and have intensified as the year went on.The National Disability Authority are leading on a series of focus groups, with a focus on seldom heard groups. Focus group topics include carers, older persons, transport, cost of disability, employment and training, housing and independent living, disability health and social care services and supports, education, and...