Results 101-120 of 221 for carers speaker:Pearse Doherty

Finance Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I add my support to the amendment. I cannot imagine that the cost to the State would be substantial. Does the Minister have figures for the number of secondary carers who could avail of this provision if the amendment were enacted and the costs associated with it? What Deputy Donnelly said about the Minister's response last year makes sense. Obviously this is in a controlled space. There...

Finance Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...which was female. Other issues include the taxation of maternity benefit and the other changes to maternity benefit. The respite grant payment also predominantly goes to females, who are largely the carers in society. I would contend that there has been more of an impact on females than on males, and there were other such measures in different budgets. That is something that equality...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...to the Exchequer cannot be made until 2025 and that the aggregate payments in any given year can only be 4% of the fund. If there is an issue in future whereby we cannot afford to pay doctors, carers or special needs assistants the most the Exchequer can get back from the fund, even when it is profitable, is 4% of the aggregate total of the combined value of the fund for a year. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (27 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if a parent who is not the primary carer can avail of the single parent tax credit if the primary carer is unemployed but does not agree to allowing the other parents avail of the credit. [22322/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...arrears whose house is valued well below €100,000 and requires significant renovation. The wife is in poor health having had a stroke and needs medical help which means her husband is her full-time carer. The bank’s solution to dealing with their arrears is for them to leave their house and the remaining debt goes with them. What steps does the bank take in such...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (28 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was refused carer's allowance for their parent on medical grounds when their parent successfully qualified for carer's last year and their sibling had been in receipt of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3538/14]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...However, it was limited in its scope. There was insufficient engagement with civic society. When the Commission on Taxation recommended that the one-parent tax credit should be given to only one carer there was no consultation with the families or the organisations that represent them. Economists examined the figures and based the recommendation on those assessments. The SIPTU...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...the Minister's €40 or less, but they will be affected. We also dealt with the one-parent tax credit yesterday. The Minister has acknowledged that grandparents have been receiving the credit if they are the secondary carers, but they will no longer be eligible. Therefore, a cohort of over-70s will be affected. We do not know the numbers because they have not been provided. The...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...acknowledged that the father - it is primarily fathers being targeted here - who cares for his child or children for an aggregate of 100 days should be able to claim this tax credit, if the primary carer forgoes it. There is already a distinction being made as to who should and should not claim the credit and we could build on that during Report Stage, if the Minister was open to that....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...to be phased out over a number of years up to 2017, yet no consideration is given to phasing in or out other measures the Minister has brought in through the Finance Bill - for example, the single carer's allowance for single fathers. They do not have four years over which they will lose that tax credit, yet some of the wealthier in society are being given a phasing-out period for this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons formerly eligible for one parent family tax credit that are ineligible for the single person child carer tax credit; and the number of this group that are male and the number that are female. [45653/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance the savings that will be made from the replacement of the one parent family tax credit with the single person child carer tax credit. [45654/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered linking qualification to the single person child carer tax credit for a separated, non-principal carer who would have formerly qualified for the one parent family tax credit, to the payment of child maintenance. [45655/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (5 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...if she has considered extending eligibility for family income supplement to families where parents cannot work by reason of disability or invalidity or in cases whereby one parent is in receipt of carer's allowance for the other parent; the number of families that would benefit from such an extension of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45611/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...could go further, but it has refused to do so. Why not restore the respite care grant? I remind the Tánaiste that it was one of the nastiest, most vicious cuts implemented on the 82,000 carers of loved ones the length and breadth of the State. Why not restore the €325 grant and put it back into their pockets? Has the Tánaiste still not learned the lesson that the...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff Recruitment (9 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...there has been a reduction of six front-line workers. A recently published HIQA report on St. Joseph's stated: "At the time of inspection there were 10 staff off through illness, five nurses and five carers", in addition to one retirement. The confidential HSE public service agreement, PSA, document, to which I have access, states that the St. Joseph's management team has indicated its...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...are sending out here today. Why fear equality? The answer can probably be seen in the type of measures this Government has introduced over the past two years. Equality is not a concept. Equality is something that is rooted in the Irish people and very dear to them but it is something that is very distant from this Government, as has been seen in its actions. We have seen it time...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a carer's allowance application 15 months to process and was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [25977/13]

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...of opportunity to lobby the Department. When an auditing firm or a stockbroker sends the Government its list of tax incentives needed to facilitate business, does it receive the same level of attention or more than the submission from the respite carers' group that tells the Minister the cut to its grant will not only decimate its quality of life, but probably end up costing the Exchequer...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: How dare the Tánaiste say that? I did not see him standing shoulder to shoulder with carers outside Leinster House yesterday.