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Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...for leaving politics. If the logistics of care is seen as a minority issue, it will remain a minority issue. Diversity and gender parity of representation will not change in our chambers if carers find the position untenable. I am supportive of building a diverse councillor body and in 2023, I became one of 15 councillor-mentors with the Immigrant Council of Ireland's three-month...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 31 other results from this debate

Denis Naughten: By moving this motion, we want to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of half a million carers around this country and give them some small recognition for the valuable work that they are doing by replacing the current system with a non-means-tested scheme for the carer's allowance focusing solely on care needs. Yesterday, I had a conversation with the mother of a child called Willow....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...the visits but she is practically a prisoner in her own home because she cannot go to the service she enjoyed so much. Her mother is now practically a prisoner as well because she is her main carer. She cannot get out to do whatever she needs to do because her daughter needs full-time care and assistance at home. What is happening is directly affecting people and their families. ...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (24 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to allowing a carer to accompany a candidate during driving tests, including in situations where a candidate has an invisible disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18162/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (24 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ..., State Pension (Contributory) applications are assessed under all possible methods with the most beneficial payment rate paid to the applicant. In January of this year I introduced the Long Term Carers Contributions which allowed for those who provided full time care to incapacitated individuals to receive reckonable contributions for the time spent giving that care, provided they cared...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18187/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this answer

Duncan Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to expedite an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) which was submitted in December 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (24 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Workforce Advisory Group. Addressing the shortage of care workers in Ireland is an urgent priority. In March 2022, I established the cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants. It set out to examine the challenges in frontline carer roles in the home support and long-term residential care sectors. The report was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Frances Black: ...he share a little bit about the diagnosis and what that involves? That will be important. For those supporting patients during that waiting period, such as Mr. MacAuley, do any supports exist for carers? Could the witnesses say a little about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...are quite bizarre. Let us take a small farmer on ten acres or 10 ha of poor land. We know what he has from the Department of agriculture, it is awfully easy to figure out. In some of the means-testing, say, for a carer's allowance at €900 per week, if they have only got €2,000 in grants, they are unlikely to have €50,000 or €10,000 of cattle to sell. They...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...our disabled citizens. We should not fail a talented artist who wants to have visibility as a disabled artist in this way. It is a most reprehensible series of incidents. As a father, a parent and a carer to a university student such as this one, to me, it beggars belief that we would treat a citizen in this way.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...we are discussing here. I also welcome Dr. Niall Muldoon, whom I have never met, but I thank him for all his powerful advocacy in the area of disability rights for children. As a parent and a carer, I really appreciate it. I must confess that I was a primary school teacher in a previous life back in the 1980s. I had 37 children in the class-----

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, means tested schemes are in place across a broad number of Government Departments to determine eligibility and rates payable for certain payments and supports. Means tests seek to ensure that scarce resources are allocated in a manner that reflects the policy objective of the scheme and allocate the available resources as effectively as possible to those most in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment of carer’s allowance will be urgently restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a Carer's Allowance appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 31 August 2023. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: 411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for carer’s allowance submitted on 15 February 2024 (details supplied) in respect of a person caring for an individual who is terminally ill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17699/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Kathleen Funchion: 414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is only receiving €130 in carer’s payment, given the circumstances. [17812/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Creed: 418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is expected a decision will issue on a carer's allowance application (details supplied). [17948/24]