Results 601-620 of 14,213 for carers

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Foster carers are paid a weekly allowance, which is a payment in respect of the child in their care. The foster care allowance is currently €325 per week for a child under 12 years of age and €352 per week for a child aged 12 years and over. The foster care allowance is a payment in respect of each child and young person in care. It is paid in respect of the child and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Sherlock: 1074. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will bring forward from November 2024 to January 2024, the proposed rise in foster carer allowance announced in Budget 2024. [46387/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (7 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...a range of medical procedures/services as close to home as possible. This has helped reduce travel time, and the ease of access, which has been hugely beneficial for patients, their families and carers. The North West Cancer Centre at Altnagelvin Area Hospital is a £66m sterling capital development project that has been funded on a North-South basis. This Centre, incorporating the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...for Health if he will take the necessary steps to ensure that future tender invitations for home support services will include mileage payments to homecare workers (as is the case for HSE employed carers); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47629/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (7 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Colm Burke: .... To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to enable hospitals to block book home care hours, in order to enable providers to plan strategically and ensure that there are carers available to support timely discharge of patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (7 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...is a rare, life-long genetic condition which causes fragile, blistering skin. There is no doubt that Epidermolysis Bullosa places a substantial medical, social, and financial burden on patients and carers. I fully appreciate the difficulties experienced by patients suffering from this painful condition. Earlier this year I received a pre-budget submission from Debra Ireland detailing...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

...early years settings. It needs to be informed by a child-centred approach to deal with the issues in the early years sector. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child recognises parents and carers as the primary caregivers, but it also imposes a duty on the State to provide assistance to families, and this includes the provision of quality early years childcare services. Ireland...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: ...of need. It would be wrong of me to say they need those assessments to access education but they certainly do for access to special classes. They need assessments for access to social protection and the carer's allowance. I operate in a siloed system where there is needs-based approach. There is not a needs-based approach, however, in education or social protection. I am trying to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...that the timeline extends until past the middle of 2028. The other issue was that of home support activity. Page 13 states that, as of July, there were 5,992 people assessed and waiting for carers. That figure seems to be sticking stubbornly at around the 6,000 mark. I ask that we get back to Mr. Gloster in the HSE and ask whether the waiting time will be affected by the issues he...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Creed: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is expected a decision will be made on a carer's allowance appeal (details supplied). [47122/23]

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Sherlock: ...package would have targeted money where it is needed most. It would have provided for a bonus in October and at Christmas for those who need it most this year, and not in January. It would have increased pensions, carer's allowance and other payments by €15 per month. It would have provided €9 monthly public transport across all modes and would have given renters a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Mark Ward: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale behind a person who is receiving the State pension and is carer for their partner not being entitled to receive the full-rate carer's payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46925/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (25 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Réada Cronin: 162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what improved and specific help will be given to emergency foster carers for their contingent need, for example, in the provision of packs of emergency supplies, appropriate to the various age groups, so they can begin, with the necessary ease and equipment, the wrap-around care of highly vulnerable children at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Ensuring Inclusive Local and EU Elections: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...depend on the kindness of strangers, when really we should be at a starting point. I hear it in the aspirations set out for the commission that everything should be in place. There is this question of having a carer on Saturdays. Everybody should have a carer on Saturday and Sunday, because you might actually want to go to mass. Imagine that outdated notion. It comes back to the idea...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to discuss the Green Paper today. I welcome to the meeting Dr. Ronán Hession, assistant secretary, working age and family policy; Dr. Sarah Waters, principal officer, illness disability and carers policy; and Dr. Devesh Singh, chief medical officer. I invite Mr. Hession to make his opening statement.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023) See 14 other results from this debate

Michael Moynihan: Will the Minister look at the figures for those who come off the carer's benefit?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...start funding soup kitchens. We want to support individuals. On Deputy Dillon's question, as I said, ESRI data show the budget package will insulate most households from rising prices next year. Carers will get the two double payments at Christmas and in January, a €400 lump sum in November and a €12 weekly increase in January. All in all, there will be approximately...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...work in partnership with Tusla and other community-based services and agencies, including IPAS and the counselling in primary care, CIPC, service as well. Practitioners enable parents, guardians, carers and families to sustain the safe care of their children in the home setting. The plan is that there will be one of these practitioners in every Tusla area. I think there will be 17 in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Pauline Tully: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing persons in receipt of disability allowance, blind pension, carer's allowance or an invalidity pension to remain part of the free travel scheme if they return to employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46446/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Oct 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Seán Canney: ...for decisions to be made. Where additional information is required there should be a timeframe once it is submitted. I know there has been an increase in applications and I know it is serious but carers and people who give up work to care full-time for people at home need to be treated with urgency and as a priority.