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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has undertaken any assessment on the merits of ending the means test on the carer’s allowance. [37630/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Sep 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...and attention and when that 18.5 hours is added to the 34 or 35 hours of care that must be provided, that is a good few hours. There are a lot of things I would like to do in this budget for carers but I will have to prioritise. That is the reality of the budget process. Increasing the income disregards is something the Deputy raised with me on many occasions.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...care services. This is reflected in the home care waiting lists, with the mid-west accounting for 16% of the total national waiting list at the end of May. A total of 347 people were waiting for a carer to be assigned in Clare, with a further 285 people in Limerick and 110 in north Tipperary. This must be dealt with. We know that home care provision is particularly strained in rural...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the very serious issue of posts that are waiting to be filled in hospitals in Kerry. University Hospital Kerry has 50 vacant posts for nurses and carers. In Tralee Community Hospital, there are five vacant posts for nurses and there is no director of nursing in place. Dingle Community Hospital has three vacant nursing posts. We wish to have some Irish-speaking nurses appointed to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...and nursing homes, and they have nobody to look after them. Nobody wants to be stuck in a hospital for six or seven weeks waiting for someone to look after them. There is a serious shortfall of carers. Both the Minister and I know the money is good, but it is not going to put bread and butter on the table for a family looking after a loved one. There are many genuine people out there...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Programme for Government (24 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...State Pension Contributory scheme; The introduction of a system of voluntary deferral of the State Pension up to the age of 70, which allows people to receive a higher rate of payment for each year they defer; Long-term carers can now be awarded PRSI contributions for periods of care, so they can attain a State pension in their own right; Auto-enrolment legislation was enacted in July;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Pauline Tully: 12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to extend eligibility of carer’s benefit to include people who are self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37672/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (24 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am fully committed to making the case for a fair budget that protects the people most in need in our society - particularly families on low incomes and those people, including pensioners and carers, who are dependent on social protection payments. No decisions have been made in terms of the composition of next year's Budget. As part of Budget 2024, I secured a €2.3 billion Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: ...Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 940 of 9 September 2024, if she will outline the policy and budgetary context in which the household benefits package for carers who do not live with the person they care for was scrapped in 2012; if she has considered it within the context of Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37645/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Heather Humphreys: ...when a qualified spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is aged under 66 is €662 and the means threshold when a qualified spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is aged over 66 is €725.90. Also from January 2023, Disablement Benefit and Half-rate Carers Allowance payment are disregarded when assessing means for Fuel Allowance purposes. Disablement Benefit also no longer disbars a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Claire Kerrane: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of family carers that have applied for, and been approved for, the new State pension for carers via the long-term carers contribution; if the Minister would consider using this method for foster carers in accessing a State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37481/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Pauline Tully: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase the income disregards and earnings thresholds for disability allowance and carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: 36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider the opportunity for more flexible financial supports for family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (24 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...of Budget 2024. This represented the largest Budget package for the Department of Social Protection in the history of the State. This package provided vital and much needed support our pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and families. As part of this package, I announced that weekly social welfare rates were to increase by €12 from January 2024, which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Thomas Gould: 45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work her Department has undertaken to improve access to the carer’s allowance. [37633/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (24 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...on 4 April 2023, and introduces important entitlements for workers, including leave for medical care purposes for parents of children under 12, and the right to request flexible working for parents and carers. Family leave provisions are kept under review to ensure that they are effective and respond to the needs of families. Given the recent expansions and additions to family leaves and...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Paul Murphy: ...in the communities in which they live" - could take action against the State. That is why the Government does not intend to do it. It does not intend to scrap the means test for those on disability or carer's allowance or to make sure those payments cover the real costs of having a disability. The budget is a week and a half away. The Government does not intend, as point No. 17 calls...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Robert Troy: .... The husband is gone and the court issued an order to sell the property, which is effectively a notice to quit. There are three children, two of whom have autism. The mother is a full-time carer. She has been approved to join the housing list but the local authority said it is unable to purchase that house. That is wrong. It is her home and that of her children. She is effectively...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

...be. From my perspective, we are not doing enough to break down enough of those barriers to enable more fluid and flexible ways of enabling women to be more fully heard. I am thinking in terms of carer's leave and flexible working. These are very practical things that will make a huge difference in women's lives. I obviously take my seat in Westminster and one of the Adjournment debates...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for carer’s allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37050/24]