Results 1-20 of 195 for carer's speaker:Robert Troy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter this evening. I start by acknowledging the role that family carers play, firstly in society, in keeping people in their own home, where the vast majority want to be kept, and secondly in the economy, to which they contribute €20 billion per annum. The State of Caring 2024 report was based on a survey of 2,127...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: ...onus and responsibility we are putting on employers in that regard. At a minimum, we should look at how we can support employers if they get sick for a time. Members often speak in this House about carers. They are among the few welfare recipients who actually work for their payment. They save the State tens of millions of euro, if not hundreds of millions, every year by keeping...

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

Robert Troy: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend eligibility for LAA and fuel allowance to people in receipt of carer's allowance. [23425/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Robert Troy: 7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing the punitive means test for the carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (12 Dec 2023)

Robert Troy: ...Affairs and Social Protection how someone’s annual average entitlement for a contributory State pension is calculated; and if credit is paid for a home making period and period spent as a carer. [54743/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Robert Troy: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to abolishing the means test for the carer’s allowance. [46383/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (17 Oct 2023)

Robert Troy: 542. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the very significant number of overseas fully qualified nurses who can only work as carers, because of a deficiency in their English fluency; and if he has considered how these persons could be supported to resume full nursing roles after a period in Ireland; and if he is aware of the claim that the standard of fluency in English required...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Robert Troy: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the means test for carers allowance to take into account certain expenses such as rent or mortgage payments. [40216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2023)

Robert Troy: 191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite the review and re-instatement of a carer’s allowance payment for a person (details supplied). [25395/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 May 2023)

Robert Troy: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a carer’s allowance appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied) and ensure an oral hearing is scheduled in advance of any decision. [25130/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 2023)

Robert Troy: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite an application for carer's allowance on behalf of a person (details supplied). [20763/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Feb 2023)

Robert Troy: 175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied). [8956/23]

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

Robert Troy: 391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if people in receipt of carer's benefit are informed in adequate time before the payment ceases to enable them to submit an application form for carer's allowance to avoid a period of no payment. [6601/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Dec 2022)

Robert Troy: 364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all recipients of carers allowance will receive the cost-of-living top-up paid in November. [60667/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Nov 2022)

Robert Troy: 443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the carer's allowance appeal of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Nov 2022)

Robert Troy: 639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer’s allowance appeal for a person (details supplied) can be allowed without further delay. [54339/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

Robert Troy: 545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new income guidelines for fuel allowance coming into effect on 23 January 2023 will apply to a couple (details supplied) where one person is over 70 years and is in receipt of a State pension (contributory) but their spouse, while in receipt of a qualifying payment of carer’s allowance, is under 70 years....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (6 Jul 2022)

Robert Troy: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of full-time and part-time home carers in counties Longford and Westmeath. [36604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (6 Jul 2022)

Robert Troy: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to home carers in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. [36605/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (31 May 2022)

Robert Troy: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that a carer’s allowance payment is considered as assessable means on a local authority rent assessment while other social welfare payments are not assessable; his views on whether those providing full-time care are providing an extremely important service; and if he will agree to rectify this issue. [28036/22]