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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (9 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the earliest possible stage, consultations are being planned which will include those most directly affected by this policy. Children and young people in informal kinship care arrangements, their carers and parents will be consulted in-depth as part of the development of the policy. In line with current best practice, these consultations will be carried out by my Department and completed...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023) See 15 other results from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: ...speak more generally about the extensive reforms occurring in social care. However, before I do so, I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding efforts of front-line carers and all those who work right across our health and social services. They have stepped up and demonstrated their commitment to meeting the needs of service users in our communities throughout...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Mark Wall: ...the numbers of those seeking home help support in the first six months of 2022 to the same period in 2023 we see a 3.7% increase in people needing care. Over the past week I have spoken to a number of carers in the system who because of their age are being encouraged to retire by the HSE. At a time when we have 6,000 people on a waiting list we should be actively asking these experienced...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...package of measures introduced in budget 2024 to support households. Budget 2024 introduced a suite of once-off cost-of-living supports worth a total €2.2 billion to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. This includes a lump-sum payment of €300 to all fuel allowance recipients this month. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities has announced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

.... Some of those difficulties have been mentioned already. Families have children with significant behavioural problems and presentations. They are violent towards their siblings, parents and carers and they are injuring themselves. Families are at times afraid to identify these issues because they do not know what doing so would mean in terms of disruption to the family when services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...for the Government. To this end, the cross departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group was established in March 2022 to examine, and formulate recommendations to address, the challenges in frontline carer roles in the home support and long term residential care sectors. The Group was chaired by the Department of Health and comprised representatives from seven government departments...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence (7 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...care purposes. It also includes five days' leave for the victims of domestic violence we are discussing this evening. It further includes the right to request flexible working for parents and carers and the right to request remote working for all employees. It also includes two years of breast-feeding breaks. If I talked about paternal leave, for example, there is something of a...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...problem, it is very much a Cork issue as well. Here is an example from Cork city. It is the story of a Greek couple, one a nurse with work experience and the other either a social worker or a carer, I am not certain on that. They have two preschool-aged children. The man got a job at Cork University Hospital and came over to find a house, a school place for the kids etc. He gave up...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (7 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this answer

Gary Gannon: 37. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he considers the €25 increase in the foster carer's payment announced in budget 2024, after a period of 14 years of no increases, to be reasonable, given inflation rates during that period, and the continuous decrease in the number of foster carers year after year. [46364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: ...of marriage. There may be an advantage in tax legislation for a married couple or civil partners as regards the extended rate band, the ability to transfer certain tax credits and entitlement to the home carer tax credit in specific circumstances. However, the legal status for married couples has wider consequences from a tax perspective both for themselves and persons connected with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: ...of marriage. There may be an advantage in tax legislation for a married couple or civil partners as regards the extended rate band, the ability to transfer certain tax credits and entitlement to the home carer tax credit in specific circumstances. However, the legal status for married couples has wider consequences from a tax perspective both for themselves and persons connected with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (7 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...under the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023. Under the Act, flexible working arrangements such as adjusted working patterns or reduced hours, will be available to parents and carers. One Code of Practice will now be developed which will provide practical guidance to employers and employees on dealing with requests under the new law. Work on the development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...Protection measures as part of Budget 2024. This represents the largest Budget package for the Department of Social Protection in the history of the State and will help to support our pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and families during this difficult period. As part of Budget 2024, I announced a number of once off payments to assist families. This included...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (7 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...single person and €1,000 for a couple. These changes resulted in an additional 35,000 households joining the scheme so far. Last year, I significantly increased the income and capital disregards for Carer's Allowance. This enables more carers with modest incomes to become eligible for the scheme and allows carers and their families to earn more from employment while retaining...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (7 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/67 and the Data Protection Act 2018". Submissions on the Green Paper are handled by officials in my Department's Disability and Carers' Policy Unit only and personal information is redacted from every submission. Data and submissions are kept within this unit and no personal data is shared with other Units in my Department or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Carer's Support Grant (CSG) is an annual payment made to carers by my Department. I can confirm that my Department received an application for CSG from the person concerned on 23 May 2023. It is a condition of CSG that the care recipient must have a disability that meets the full-time care and attention requirements set out in the governing legislation such that a person shall not be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Nov 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 14 June 2023. CA was awarded to the person concerned on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...a single person and €1,000 for a couple. These changes resulted in an additional 35,000 households joining the scheme so far.Last year I significantly increased the income and capital disregards for Carer's Allowance. This enables more carers with modest incomes to become eligible for the scheme and allows carers and their families to earn more from employment while retaining...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this answer

Violet-Anne Wynne: 772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of disallowed applications for carer's allowance for 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48558/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48821/23]