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- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Michael Collins: I thank the Minister of State for clarifying that but you have to be terminally ill to get that.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: No.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Michael Collins: In most cases that is the case because I certainly know from my office.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: No.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Michael Collins: The Minister of State is incorrect because people have come to my office and they are applying for the medical card and cannot get it even though they have cancer. The Minister of State should not come along telling me that is not the case. Unfortunately, you have to be terminally ill to fill the form the Minister of State is talking about. If not, please give me the form. She must have a...
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: Sound bite. Well done.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Michael Collins: Thank you too with your dream talk.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this very important topic this evening. I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Tully for giving us the opportunity. I thank carers and home helps all around the country but especially in Kerry for the great work they do and continue to do. I must compliment one man who lives up the street and who came home from Limerick. Kilgarvan is a small place...
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you very much, Deputy.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: We should aspire to that and look after our own people. We are spending billions on others and the Government wants to do more of it with this Bill that it is trying to-----
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, let us not go down that road. We are-----
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Thank you very much, Ceann Comhairle. It is a very serious matter.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It has to deal with it and be seen to deal with it.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Healy-Rae and Deputy Collins are sharing time.
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Michael Collins: I have stood in this Chamber many times and spoken of the work being done by the carers of this country. I have spoken of the amount of money they are saving the State, the personal care they give, which is second to none, yet the thanks these people get is that they are means tested. I can quote case after case, person after person, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. We hear a good deal...
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. We can never speak enough about care work and carers in this country. We can all agree that, in a very crude form, carers save the State hundreds of millions of euro per year. We cannot put a price on the care work they do for loved ones and friends. The discrepancies in care pointed out by Family Carers Ireland are quite shocking. The...
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Canney: I too welcome the motion and thank Deputies Tully and Ryan for bringing it forward. They are colleagues of mine on the disability matters committee. The motion follows on from one the Regional Group put forward a number of weeks ago, in which we sought for the abolition of means-testing for the carer's allowance. I want to recap some of what was said during the debate on that motion....
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Last Saturday, I buried my aunt Jenny O'Leary. Jenny McCarthy was her maiden name. She had been sick for 12 years and her daughter Linda cared for her. Jenny had a lot of issues but she always wanted to stay at home. Even up to two years ago before she stopped communicating, her daughter kept her at home. Linda had to fight for everything from home help hours to increased home help hours...
- Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)
Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. It is always welcome to speak on the issues facing carers but particularly so given the report released by Family Carers Ireland last week. The findings of the report are shameful. It is another report about the disgraceful lack of support for carers and those for whom they care and another reminder that life is harder, more stressful and more...