Results 1-20 of 30 for carer's speaker:Pat Buckley

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State provides any direct support or assistance in meeting the requirement for continuous supervision under the carer's allowance scheme, particularly in cases where the full burden of care cannot be met by one individual alone; and when he plans to abolish means testing for carer's allowance, as previously committed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Feb 2025)

Pat Buckley: 587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will take steps in relation to the case of a person (details supplied) who is being denied carer's allowance on the grounds that they receive a fostering allowance from a fostering agency that is not funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004, but the agency has a contract with Tusla; if this anomaly will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2025)

Pat Buckley: 199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay with a carer’s allowance application for a person (details supplied); and when the applicant can expect to receive a decision. [4975/25]

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

Pat Buckley: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire for bringing this powerful motion to the floor. It is about having respect for carers and those with disabilities, and giving them support and a voice. It is about doing the right thing. I hope the Government will not oppose the motion and will come on board and support these people who are affected. As previous speakers said, these jobs are done out of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes (16 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...In fairness to the Minister, she informed me at the time that there was a one-to-one case worker on that case. That issue was resolved after 25 years. The woman in question had never received a carer's allowance for her child but she did through dialogue. Is any avenue available to survivors to rectify the records? It is bad enough what they went through in the institutions but now...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...from Youghal to Carrigaline and the other from Youghal to Lota in Glanmire. He gets no assistance because of their age. This dad, who lost his wife a number of years ago, is his daughters' full-time carer. His full-time job includes driving them to school every day, collecting them and bringing them home. We know the demand is there for provision. I acknowledge the increase in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (11 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: 896.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that families where one parent is a carer are not unduly penalised when seeking support for a child entering third level education in terms of SUSI and other State supports. [24778/24]

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

Pat Buckley: ...previous speakers about the people who care for others. It is personal but there is the knock-on effect of poverty, mental health issues and so on. I am going to concentrate on the good work that carers do, in particular on an amazing and successful story that I raised in the House a number of months ago. One woman cared for her daughter for more than 20 years. She never received a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (1 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...financial relief for autistic children whose families are paying privately for assessments and therapies, proper oversight for external complaint systems for the HSE and a full review of the carer's allowance and how carers are viewed, is from Mr. Mark Darmody on behalf of Ms Cara Darmody. The petitioner advises that this petition has three aspects to it, all of which are connected. More...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank Deputy Tully for bringing forward this motion. Carers work all year round. They do not get holidays and are not entitled to them according to Family Carers Ireland, FCI. We spoke about this issue at the meeting of the Joint Committee on Autism this morning. The representatives of FCI said that families who have members with autism have additional costs. This works out, on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...for the past number of years, in the context of Sláintecare, the future of mental health care and so on. They mentioned ageing out of services and the mental health stress of over 50% of family carers about what is going to happen to their children once they pass on. Could the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act overlap into those services as a backstop for people? Surely it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Pat Buckley: ..., particularly in trying to get wraparound services, etc. Would the newly formed Decision Support Service, that network, be of any advantage? Does it fall under any remit to help Family Carers Ireland or carers themselves?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (4 May 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...being pushed back. If we go back to one of the responses, such as the one dated 9 March 2023, it states: ... this Department will continue to keep a range of income supports provided to family carers under review [...] However, any changes to these supports would have implications for the overall spending and can only be addressed in an overall budgetary and policy context. Are we to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...happened for a family? Regardless of whether the answer is "Yes" or "No", if we can find that information, it may be beneficial to the families listening today. I raised a specific case about carers in the Dáil some months ago. It was a complicated case. The poor lady in question did not have her case resolved in 35 years she had spent caring for a child. The response from the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2022)

Pat Buckley: .... Equally, disquiet has also been expressed that some families were informed that their loved ones had tested positive for Covid-19 while others were not. Some found this out accidentally from a carer during a phone call, while others only found out when their loved ones died. Some families also have questions as to why their loved ones' remains were not released to the funeral home...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...workforce out of the caring industry". People who spoke to the paper said there was nothing complex about the crisis with one saying, "Change would have to mean the agencies paying more to the carers, and better conditions for the healthcare workers and more attention to the families". A number of months ago there was reference in The Irish Timesto carers as gig workers. An...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...they can get a GP, they have to pay him or her €60 or €70. I will get in trouble if I use my choice words in committee on that. It is indescribable. There is something regarding means test for carers in certain families the Department does not tell you. We only learned this through a Topical Issue debate a number of weeks ago. There is a separate office in the HSE that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (6 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...now. I know where the Minister of State’s response is coming from and it mentions: "too much or too little product, which is not optimal for the individual person or their families". We talk about carers and they are the individuals who have been involved for the longest length of time so to me they are the experts. If you are dealing with the district health nurse and saying...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Eligibility (14 Sep 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...a thankless job. Her day starts at 5.30 a.m., showering dressing, brushing her daughter's hair and tying her shoes. Margaret's daughter is 36 years and she has spent those 36 years as her sole carer. Margaret fractured her pelvis in 2016 and had to give up work. She ended up riding a bike for a year so that she could take her daughter on her very important routine daily walks. In...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Ombudsman for 2018, 2019 and 2020: The Ombudsman (30 Sep 2021)

Pat Buckley: ...with autism and an assistance dog. The latter has to pay for a licence. It was discriminatory. We will certainly visit that. One issue that worries me relates to the additional supports given to carers to allow those people to remain in the community. It is pertinent because we are coming out of the world's worst pandemic. Mental health issues are going off the scale and we have a...