Results 1-20 of 54 for carers speaker:Paul Murphy

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...in the communities in which they live" - could take action against the State. That is why the Government does not intend to do it. It does not intend to scrap the means test for those on disability or carer's allowance or to make sure those payments cover the real costs of having a disability. The budget is a week and a half away. The Government does not intend, as point No. 17 calls...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...education professions; — immediately ratify the Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; — supply non-means tested universal payments that cover the real costs of having a disability and provide income security to disabled people; — introduce a guaranteed living wage for carers that is not means tested, and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...they could not be homeless as their health does not allow them to do so. The father cannot breathe at night without a device, he has heart problems and he is waiting for surgery. His wife is his carer but she is also sick and her daughter is under Jigsaw's care with a mental health issue. He said the county council was slowing everything down for more than one year and at the end of it,...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...Funding has been rarely mentioned in the past four years and funding options have not been developed. The consequence is the picture we see, namely the effective abandonment of many older people. Family Carers Ireland says that 74% of those surveyed report that the individuals they support do not receive sufficient formal support. We obviously know we are heading into a situation with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 473.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the case of a person (details supplied), she will instruct her Department to assess an application based on hours worked prior to September 2022 when working hours were reduced due to their son’s care needs; and if she will update the carer’s benefit assessment to allow for secondary school teachers who...

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

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce a living wage for family carers through the social protection system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18329/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will abolish means testing of carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18327/24]

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...important victory. That and the massive “No” vote in the care referendum should put the Government and the institutions of the State on notice that ignoring and mistreating people with disabilities and carers will not be possible any longer. The Government must start taking meaningful steps towards guaranteeing equal rights for disabled people. Tokenism will not be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why 'S' class contributions do not quality for carer’s payment; if there are any exceptions to this rule; if there is consideration around changing this; and if not, why not. [10056/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...reduce carbon emissions and bring down bills. We are talking about some of the poorest households in the country. I refer to working families on poverty wages who get the working family payment, carers, single parent families, people with disabilities and pensioners whose incomes are low enough to allow them to qualify for the fuel allowance. These are the people who are living in...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...the Government to replace this section. Having such poor wording, which is correctly open to strong criticism, as we will make, not only misses an opportunity to make a meaningful difference for carers in this country, but also endangers this referendum and the prospect of removing the odious women in the home clause from the Constitution. I appeal, even at this late stage, to the...

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

Paul Murphy: 892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether retrospective applications can be granted for a carer’s allowance (details supplied). [56905/23]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...of organisations where workers do not get pay parity. They are effectively providing a public service but they are not given pay parity and the consequence is real crises in recruitment and retention. Carers are another group failed by this budget. Yes, there was an increase in the income disregard. That is welcome but there was a very small increase in the rate. They get the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...our mental health and no reference to funding trans healthcare appropriately. There is nothing there in terms of healthcare. Yesterday, I raised the scandal relating to the delay in funding the cuts to the cost of childcare but foster carers have been treated even worse. After having no increase in payments since 2009, it was announced that there would be an increase but most of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person's (details supplied) illness benefit payment will be affected if they apply for the carer's support grant. [31226/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Costs (4 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: The only aspect of Ireland's public transport ticketing system that the Greenpeace report praises is free public transport for people over 66, people with disabilities and carers. It states that, apart from this, there are no best-practice elements in the ticketing system. It finds that Dublin has the second most expensive daily public transport costs in Europe, second only to London, which...

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

Paul Murphy: ...and Social Protection if a person can apply for carer’s allowance while they are receiving jobseeker’s allowance; what happens to their jobseeker's payment while a decision is being made on the carer's allowance application; if it will be suspended as it will be deemed that they are not available for full-time work; and if their jobseeker’s payment is suspended, could...

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

Paul Murphy: ...Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the partner of a person is receiving half-rate carer’s allowance for their child, how the payments work if their partner is approved for carer's allowance for their parent, if they each have a child dependent on their claim. [20623/23]

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

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is granted carer’s allowance is still eligible to complete their final year of a bachelor's degree via Springboard while also caring for the needs of their parent as the course is part-time in the evening. [20624/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees that full-time carers to children and adults with a lifelong disability should be entitled to a medical card; if he will take steps to ensure that this is introduced as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5409/23]