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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]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...up to 20 years credited periods is a very generous one, having regard to the fact that 40 years contributions are required in order to receive a maximum rate of payment. Since January 2024, long-term carers contributions (LTCCs) can be awarded to a person who has cared for an incapacitated person for a period of 20 years (1040 weeks) or more and these contributions can be used towards...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (19 Sep 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Heather Humphreys: ...Injury Benefit €0.24 €0.48 €0.60 €0.72 Incapacity Supplement €0.44 €0.89 €1.11 €1.34 Jobseeker's Benefit €19.00 €38.02 €47.52 €57.02 ...

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

Paul McAuliffe: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the weekly income disregards of the carer's allowance to €500, €625 and €700 per single person; and the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the weekly income disregards of the carer's allowance to €1,000, €1,250 and €1,400...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (19 Sep 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Paul McAuliffe: ...Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for paying a full rate of domiciliary care allowance for every child that qualifies, when the same logic is not applied to the carer's allowance if a person is caring for more than one adult; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37181/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Sep 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Paul McAuliffe: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost to the Exchequer of expanding the eligibility of the carer's benefit to include self-employed people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37183/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (19 Sep 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Paul McAuliffe: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of increasing the carer's support grant by €25 per year, €50 per year, €75 per year and €100 per year, in tabular form. [37185/24]

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...that are not regulated by the State and that allow for children to go missing. Some of those children are exploited by gangs for sexual exploitation. This is an incredible situation. The whole carer system in this country is an absolute mess. It is amazing that we have debates of this nature on childcare and that so often the discussion becomes around an ideological flag. I would...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: ...Health Bill to the House. The Bill has been long in gestation. A commitment to review the Mental Health Act 2001 “informed by human rights standards and in consultation with service users, carers and other stakeholders” was committed to by the current and previous Governments. The review of the Mental Health Act and the development of a new Bill have featured in successive...