Results 61-70 of 70 for carers speaker:Marian Harkin

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

Marian Harkin: Will the Minister use budget 2021 as an opportunity to extend the home carer tax credit to single, or lone, family carers, who cannot avail of it at present? Will he also consider allowing carers to claim tax relief if they employ a care worker while, at the same time, they can avail of the incapacitated child tax credit or the dependent relative tax credit? I have a third question but...

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

Marian Harkin: There is a considerable anomaly here. If a single carer, such as a widow or widower or someone who is divorced or separated, cares for a sister or mother, the carer cannot avail of the credit. Perhaps the person is doing it full time, or works eight hours part time for sanity or just to keep heat in the house. He or she cannot avail of the home carer tax credit. That is fundamentally...

Services for People with Disabilities: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...and occupational therapy. If the Minister of State cannot respond today, she might respond in writing. I have two final points. Deputy Boyd Barrett spoke earlier about a payment for family carers who took full responsibility for adults with disabilities during the Covid crisis. It is my understanding that they did not get anything extra. I know it is hard to ring-fence this kind of...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2020)

Marian Harkin: It came to my notice late in the day that this aspect to the Bill had been slipped in. I would have been very supportive of the Bill because it is an important one to set up this new Department, the new Minister and so on. To be honest, however, I really am flabbergasted that the Government would put this forward and would look for an increase of €16,288 for each of these new...

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...who have disabilities will not be able to use such technology for one reason or another. Will the Minister speak to the HSE and ask officials to look at this from the perspective of the family carers and the service users, to consult family carers and to make sure that the services put in place are adequate? The new normal should not involve cutting back services but should work towards...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Marian Harkin: Carers employed by the HSE are literally running around the country, spending 30 minutes in one house, perhaps getting somebody up and dressed and preparing breakfast, and are then out the door and off to another house etc. The service has been cut to the bone. It is care on speed. Those carers are being asked to don PPE and take it off, put on face masks, practise hand hygiene and so on....

Health (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...equipment, as well as other emergency supports. Ultimately, these are the people who will help keep many older and vulnerable people out of hospital. There is another issue with family carers. For example, if a person cares for a family member and works ten or 15 hours in a week, that person cannot cease working because of fear of bringing the virus home and how this relates to...

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (26 Oct 2006)

Marian Harkin: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average waiting time for payment of carer's allowance from date of application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34930/06]

European Council: Statements. (29 Mar 2006)

Marian Harkin: ...to make welfare systems more friendly towards the employment of women. Were there any specific proposals on this matter? For example, some women in this country are still seen as dependent adults. Carers and women who work in the home are non-persons in terms of the social welfare system.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Feb 2006)

Marian Harkin: ...a position to make radical changes to our social welfare system, to put adequate and comprehensive child care supports in place, to deal in an equitable way with this country's tens of thousands of carers and to sort out our pensions system. Although the Minister for Social and Family Affairs is in a position to be generous, he has not been generous in some cases. I welcome the provision...