Results 1-20 of 56 for carers speaker:Seán Canney

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Canney: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has examined the repercussions that the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 will have on carers (details supplied); if he plans plan to communicate this change to carers and advise them of the repercussions it may have on their ability to claim carer’s allowance or carer’s benefit; and if he will make a...

Carer's Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: ...subject. It is not the first time we have spoken on it in the Regional Group of Independent TDs, of which I am a member with Deputy Verona Murphy. We have been advocating for a non-means-tested carer's allowance support grant for a long time. As a member of the disability matters committee, I have heard first-hand through listening to people with the experience of living in a household...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: ...It is not filtered through Departments such as the Department of Health where some of it gets lost. I acknowledge the commitment the Minister showed when we introduced a Private Members' motion on carers and not means testing carer's allowance. It is important that we continue on that trajectory so that we bring in a non-means-tested carer's allowance. It will not happen overnight but...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: ..., and people accept this, but there seems to be inertia with trying to get a plan in place to exempt functional farmers. I am a member of the Committee on Disability Matters and I am concerned about carers and children who have disabilities waiting for services. They are waiting to get assessments. With regard to the CDNT unit in Tuam, this time last year parents were protesting...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I move: That Dáil Éireann calls on the Government to set out a clear road map for the abolition of the Carer's Allowance means test by 2027. The Regional Group is tabling this motion because, given that the budget is next Tuesday, it is time that the Government take action on this issue. The motion calls for a roadmap towards abolishing the carer’s allowance means test...

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

Seán Canney: ...a case of somebody willing to drive this to make sure it is done right. The Regional Group, of which I am a member, will bring forward a Private Members' motion next week on having a non-means-tested carer's allowance. The number of parents who have given up their work and their careers to mind their child and who are being denied carer's allowance because their spouses are working and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Canney: ...to raise relates to current spending and social protection. Where do we see ourselves going in budgets for next year given the high demands from the areas of disabilities and in trying to sort out carers and all of the social issues we have in the country, which are coming hard and fast against us? This is even in times where we say our financial status is good, we are stabilised, we...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Seán Canney: ...of mine on the disability matters committee. The motion follows on from one the Regional Group put forward a number of weeks ago, in which we sought for the abolition of means-testing for the carer's allowance. I want to recap some of what was said during the debate on that motion. More than 500,000 family carers, or one in eight people in the population, are regular unpaid carers....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Seán Canney: Earlier we had a debate about carers and carer's allowance and how carers need to be treated better. We have a situation whereby somebody applying for carer's allowance cannot work more than 18 hours a week. People are participating on schemes which require them to work 19.5 hours, for instance, the rural social scheme which is a social activation scheme, not a job activation scheme. It is...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Canney: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — more than 500,000 individuals are family carers, which means one in eight people in Ireland provide regular unpaid care; — family carers are the backbone of care provision in Ireland, however they often lack support and recognition; — caring intensively over a long period without support or recognition...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: ...enough people are attracted to a career in home help. We will table a Private Members’ motion on the matter of people caring for others. We are looking for a non-means-tested payment for carers. It is high time that was done. We hope that the Government will support our motion and that we will see some action to ensure that people with disabilities and others who need help...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: .... I thank him for his friendship and loyalty over the last seven or eight years. In the aftermath of the referendums we had and the Government's insistence that it wanted to do something for carers, will the Government support our Private Member's motion coming before the Dáil next month? We will be seeking the introduction or the initiation of a non-means-tested carers support...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: ...bring this in. Bringing it in is part of the programme for Government. It is running out of time. I ask them to get on with doing this before the Government ends its rule. We are talking about carers and it is important. Everybody gives a story about what is happening in each constituency. People come into my office from all over the constituency who are crying out for help to try...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jan 2024)

Seán Canney: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the review process by which carers are having their carers allowance reviewed and the invasive nature of the information being requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4092/24]

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

Seán Canney: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the working limit for eligibility for home carers from 18.5 hours to 21.5 hours to allow for an increase in the number of carer's available to care for vulnerable people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49380/23]

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...is time to look at this in a practical way. It is not scientific. It does not need any reports to be written up. It takes direct action to allow people to work 21.5 hours and still be able to act as carers without any impact on their social welfare benefits. That will help private providers, the HSE and home care hours. Let us keep it simple, support those who need help and do it now.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: ...for decisions to be made. Where additional information is required there should be a timeframe once it is submitted. I know there has been an increase in applications and I know it is serious but carers and people who give up work to care full-time for people at home need to be treated with urgency and as a priority.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I ask the Minister for the processing times for carer's allowance applications, the sequential processing time for applications sent for review by applicants and the refusals that are under appeal by applicants. I am particularly interested in her response regarding the Department's frequent refusal of applications from individuals who serve as full-time carers for those struggling with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister. I accept that all of the budgetary measures have been put in place. I refer, however, to the time it takes for carer's allowance applications to be processed. This is a very acute issue for somebody who gives up work to care for someone at home. This might happen suddenly if there is no other choice, especially when a member of the family is experiencing depression...

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

Seán Canney: ...needs to get involved - to make sure that the money is put in place or whatever is needed is done to avert a strike and to ensure there is parity. The other day, an elderly person rang me who had a carer for seven hours and approval for another seven hours. He is in his 80s. He had worked very hard for a local retired group for as long as he could, but he now has Parkinson's. His...