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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Credits (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 271. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the dependent relative tax credit in line with the incapacitated child tax credit in order that this tax relief can be made available to all full-time carers regardless of their relationship to the cared-for person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26417/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Credits (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 272. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to the extension of eligibility for the home carer tax credit to include single working carers who, in cases, work part time while also caring for a dependent person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26418/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Credits (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to allowing carers to claim tax relief on the cost of employing a care worker while also claiming the dependent relative or incapacitated child tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26419/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be made available for the Glashaboy flood relief scheme, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26409/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the catchment area for bus routes to schools in Fermoy to include Glenville (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26420/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a phased restoration to the income disregard for carer’s allowance will be expanded to ensure that those on average industrial incomes can qualify in full for the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26389/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the €20,000 disregard for the carer’s allowance to €50,000 in the capital formula in line with the disability allowance in which the first €50,000 of capital is disregarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26390/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the carer’s support grant (details supplied) from €1,700 to €2,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26392/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending eligibility for the carer’s benefit to include self-employed persons or those paying a class S stamp that need the assurance of having a financial support available to them should they need to take time away from work to provide care; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending eligibility for the domiciliary care allowance to children residing in hospital that do not satisfy the requirement that they live at home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26394/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to developing a pension solution for family carers that due to extended periods out of the workforce to provide care for family members, do not qualify for a State pension (contributory) or a State pension (non-contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26397/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 786. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to delivering a carers guarantee to providing access to a core basket of supports including respite, home care and training to carers nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26395/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Carer's Leave (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 787. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establishing an integrated statutory scheme for the provision of home and long-term care including the right to a carer needs assessment and 20 days' respite each year for all full-time family carers in line with the annual leave entitlement of paid workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26396/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 788. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the carer general practitioner visit card to carers who are in receipt of the non-means tested carer’s support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26398/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to introducing the transport support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26399/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 790. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to providing additional funding for the National Treatment Purchase Fund to enable it to be extended so that the number of children and adults on waiting lists for essential healthcare services can be reduced in view of the withdrawal of services due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers' Strategy (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 791. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to reviewing and updating the national carers' strategy and the implementation of an action plan for the period 2020-23; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26401/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for the work that has been done over the past few months. The pandemic has been very challenging for everyone in the HSE and the health service. I wish to refer to the antigen tests that are available in a number of other countries. I understand that the cost of these tests is quite low and that the turnaround time is short, at...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: What about Vienna, where schools are getting results within 30 minutes of a teacher or student taking a test?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: I am not aware which type of test it is. My understanding is that a special unit has been set up in Vienna to deal with Covid-19 testing that quickly provides results, particularly in schools and colleges where there are a large number of students. I wonder if that issue could be looked at. I will move on to discuss elderly care units within the HSE. There were challenges during the...