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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

...output and impact indicators of the Department as a whole followed by specific output and impact indicators delivered across five key pillars of support, namely, pensions; working-age income and employment supports; illness and disability and carers' income supports; income supports for children; and supplementary payments. Critical to performance reporting under each of these areas are...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the struggles those with disabilities and their families go through on an almost daily basis. In my home constituency of Limerick, we have incredible disability service providers such as Family Carers Ireland, Dóchas, and Headway. Dóchas, for instance, is an autism support group that does fantastic work with individuals and their families, from family support to social...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: ...affordability of public transport from the Department of Transport. I acknowledge the work the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, did in extending the incapacitated tax credit, as well as the increases made by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, to the disability and carer's allowances. The Minister also reduced the eligibility threshold for the wage subsidy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

...to a more open and understanding situation, accepting of all creeds and, importantly, none, which is increasingly the case. Burden is a huge issue. Evidence now shows that the burden of being a carer has a great impact on the mental health of carers. The incidence of depression in some patients with cancer is exceeded by the incidence of depression in those caring for them. Regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (17 Oct 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 Code...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...important reforms agreed by Government is enhanced State Pension provision for people who have been caring for incapacitated dependents for over 20 years. It will do this by attributing the equivalent of paid contributions to long-term carers to cover gaps in their contribution record. The Long-Term Carer's Contributions (LTCC) will be available to those who provided full time care for 20...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...Social 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 this package, a wide range of lump-sum payments will be paid between in the coming...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...include the provision of a one-off €400 Cost-of-Living lump sum, which will be paid in November 2023 to recipients of the Disability Allowance, Blind Pension, Invalidity Pension and the Carer's Support Grant. Recipients who are in receipt of one (or more) of these payments will qualify for the €400 payment. Invalidity Pension is a weekly payment to people who cannot work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Willie O'Dea: 370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45192/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (17 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: It was my priority to secure a meaningful increase to the foster care allowance in this year’s Budget in order to support the vital role being carried out by foster carers. As outlined in Budget 2024, from 1st January 2024 the rates of the foster care allowance will increase by €25 per week, up to €350 per week for children aged under 12 and €377 per week for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (17 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: It was my priority to secure a meaningful increase to the foster care allowance in this year’s Budget in order to support the vital role being carried out by foster carers. As outlined in Budget 2024, from 1st January 2024 the rates of the foster care allowance will increase by €25 per week, up to €350 per week for children aged under 12 and €377 per week for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Sherlock: 476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay for the rise in payments to foster carers under Budget 2024 to end 2024; and if he will bring it forward to alleviate pressures on foster carers. [45216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Robert Troy: 542. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the very significant number of overseas fully qualified nurses who can only work as carers, because of a deficiency in their English fluency; and if he has considered how these persons could be supported to resume full nursing roles after a period in Ireland; and if he is aware of the claim that the standard of fluency in English required...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: .... It is not a disease in itself but an umbrella term for a range of conditions, which cause changes to the brain. Dementia has physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences for the person, their carers, supporters, families, and society generally”. Both the National Dementia Strategy and the Model of Care focus on the health, social care and societal measures that...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...work like that? It is amazing that, in 2023, we are still talking about the effects of the bailout on every part of our society. The carer’s allowance has not been increased since 2008, yet carers were only looking for pay restoration in the budget. Criminal barristers only received partial restoration in this budget of the cuts suffered before the bailout. The pay issue that...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ..., which is welcome. There will be a rise of €12 in welfare and pension payments from January. I also want to welcome the one-off €400 for people on the working family payment and those receiving the carer's, disability and blind person's allowances and the invalidity pension. I have concerns as a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters. I believe we could...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...had a budget this week and it did not even mention these workers who are going on strike next week. Forced to go on the picket line, they do not want to go on the picket line. They are the best carers out there looking after our elderly, vulnerable, sick children, wheelchair users and everybody else, and they are forced to go on the picket line in tears to get parity of esteem with their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Creed: 143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a carers allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44503/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Oct 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 4 April 2023. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023) See 12 other results from this debate

Barry Cowen: ...commitments made in the programme for Government, especially the commitments to look after those who cannot look after themselves to the extent that others can, for example, people with disabilities, pensioners and carers, to assist families with education costs and to address deficiencies in agriculture, including, as has been alluded to, specifically targeting the sheep sector. The...