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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...when they arise and reduce their impact on patients. The webpage is updated daily as the HPRA receives new information. Alternative medicines are authorised for the treatment of ADHD. If patients or their carers cannot source their usual medicine at present, they are encouraged to discuss alternatives with their healthcare provider pending the resumption of normal supply. The Department...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...they arise and reduce their impact on patients. The webpage is updated daily as the HPRA receives new information. Alternative medicines are authorised for the treatment of ADHD. If patients or their carers cannot source their usual medicine at present, they are encouraged to discuss alternatives with their healthcare provider pending the resumption of normal supply. The Department and...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...is in place. There is no special provision for them. There is no reduction in their income tax, even though we need more nurses in our health system. There are many other similar areas. The Government has decided to tax a nurse, teacher or carer more than a landlord, which is appalling. The Department officials went further when they assessed the option of a separate method of taxing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: Approximately one in 12 people in Ireland will at some stage in life be affected by a rare disease. When family members, many of whom are carers, are included, this means approximately 825,000 Irish people are impacted by a rare disease. The Taoiseach will recall that the programme for Government published in 2020 contained a commitment to deliver a revised national rare disease plan to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Patricia Ryan: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, with regard to applications for carer’s allowance benefit, she will clarify the reason people already in receipt of another social welfare payment are cut off from receiving that payment immediately from the date of their application for the carer’s allowance, as carer’s allowance applications are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the HSE recruitment freeze on recommendations one, three, four and 12 of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants, respectively, given that each of these recommendations relates to recruitment and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51572/23]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...continuing cost-of-living pressures, we again provided additional targeted payments for people. These additional payments, made through November and December, will put money into the pockets of older people, working families, carers and people with disabilities. The wide range of lump-sum payments will help to ease the burden on our most vulnerable over the winter months as an integral...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...workforce advisory group. What happens now to the four recommendations that relate directly to recruitment and training? Will they be put on ice at a time when almost 6,000 people have been approved for home care but when there are no carers available? What now for regional health areas? Many of us were starting to believe that the Government was serious about restructuring the HSE,...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...possible, with a small bit of support - le cabhair bheag ó na daoine sa pharóiste. The people that are around who know them want to come and I salute the people to give home help and home care. I salute carers as well. There was approximately 3.4% growth in the market during 2022, with 79,553 more insured individuals compared to the previous year. People are being...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...we proposed in the Joint Committee on Gender Equality and what the citizens' assembly recommended. In particular, we are concerned to see that, rather than offering a meaningful recognition of carers, it is reported that the draft will merely "strive to support the provision of care", which is a rather ineffective phrase. Furthermore, we understand from the reports in the newspapers that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

John Cummins: ...payment this week. In addition, those in receipt of the disability blind pension and invalidity pension will get a disability support grant. Next week, there will be additional payments to those on carer's allowance and those in receipt of the living alone allowance. There will also be a double child benefit payment in the run-up to Christmas on the first week in December. These are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50520/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (21 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...(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 gaps in their contribution record. The quickest way to apply for Long-Term Carers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Creed: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a carer's benefit application (details supplied). [51137/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...services. A CAMHS Hub provides enhanced intensive brief mental health interventions to support Community CAMHS Teams in delivering enhanced responses to children, young people and their families or carers, in times of acute mental health crisis. Support from these Hubs is time-limited, providing intensive intervention and support with sufficient flexibility to respond to different young...

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (21 Nov 2023)

Peter Burke: ...Spain were referred to the Court of Justice in November 2023 due to incomplete transposition of the work-life balance directive. This includes a number of important entitlements for parents and carers to support them to balance their working and caring responsibilities. These include an entitlement of two weeks' paternity leave under Article 4; nine weeks' paid parental leave under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...patients who may be vulnerable and basing their decision to die on life situations that can be addressed with the provision of appropriate supports. There is a need to focus on support for carers, respite provision in the community, an enhancement of psychiatric and mental health supports, as well as care and support of our aging population and those with increased palliative care needs....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (16 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Fergus O'Dowd: 169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to respond to concerns raised in respect of the carers allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50405/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when carer’s allowance might be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50468/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (16 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Róisín Shortall: ...to Parliamentary Question No. 1924 of 11 September 2023, the date at which an implementation plan for the 16 recommendations from the report of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home healthcare assistants will be published; the reason for the delay; the status of all 16 recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50516/23]