Results 1-20 of 258 for carers speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...; one of the things we presume is that the medical people know the measure of which you are measuring the capability or the entitlement. In other words, full-time care and attention relates to carers, while the inability to work is the phrase in the legislation in relation to disability allowance or invalidity pension and so on. On the medical forms for the doctor, it would be important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department issues general guidelines to a doctor in respect of invalidity and disabilities. They are all very subtle, including carer's allowance and so on. They get those and when they are in a busy clinic, someone comes in looking for a certificate and they have to fill out the form and that is fine. In a lot of cases, it is expecting a lot for someone to come back and check which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not getting any queries on illness benefit, I have to say that. We are getting queries on disability allowance, invalidity pensions and carer's allowance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...rightly pointed out here, or do you pick one scheme and go for it? It is all very complex. We made a recommendation the first year this committee came together to raise the income threshold for carer's allowance to €1,000 for a couple and €500 for a single person being assessed. The other issue we highlighted was the capital. If you had capital in the bank, the way it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That presumes that someone who is a full-time carer in a house, works as a carer outside the house doing more caring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Ms Maher have any idea how many people who provide professional care outside the home are also carers within the home taking care of others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but how many get carer's allowance?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 373. 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 16 October (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22394/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

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...

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

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]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...as to how they organise their lives. Generally-speaking, the Department does not count the first €20,000 of income and it ignores the first €50,000 of income for the disability allowance and carer's allowance. After that, for the next €10,000, it assess it at €1 per €1,000 per week, which is equivalent interest of 5%. The next €10,000 is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The issue of carers needs to be considered in its own right. The means test is a huge issue. There are calls to abolish it and I understand the rationale behind the calls. However, I can hear the alarms bells ringing in Government Buildings and in the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. In a situation like this, the income thresholds need to be increased. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...live. I understand what she is saying. There is a human problem, as I try to figure it out in my own mind. This issue comes before us as constituency politicians when a person comes in to query carer's allowance to do with a cancer diagnosis. In most cases, it is the caree that comes in so we are not stuck with the awkward questions. In many cases, the person who comes in to us is the...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., it was just causing more grief, more administration and so on. I hope that this is the first of many changes this year. The Minister has brought in changes previously and has done good work on the means-testing of the carer's allowance and the fuel allowance, in particular, which is very welcome. I am looking forward to the report the Department is preparing on social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for carer’s allowance (details supplied) will be processed and a decision made on it; the reason for the delay in processing this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57223/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the new rules for the granting of paid contributions to long-term carers; whether there is a minimum number of paid contributions from employment or self-employment required before a person can be granted long-term caring paid credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55980/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increased disregard of income for the carer’s allowance will come into operation, which will see the first €450 of income for a single person and €900 for a couple disregarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55981/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome that because it will make a huge difference, along with the change in the means test for the carer's allowance, which is getting nearer to the target the social welfare committee was heading towards and the recommendation of a disregard of the first €500 for a single person and the first €1,000 for a couple. It is getting much nearer to that, at €450 and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a simple enough question. Can the Minister of State give an update on the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by his Department, and outline-----