Results 1-20 of 54 for carer's speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: 986.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's payment and the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35148/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to increase the weekly carer’s allowance income disregard to €1,250 (couples) and €625 (single carers) in Budget 2025, with a similar increase in Budget 2026 with the full abolition of the means test and the introduction of a family carer payment by 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to establish a family carer payment implementation group to oversee the development of the new payment; if she will accept that this should begin in 2024 and ensure that all practical issues regarding the implementation of the new payment for carers are addressed, including the transfer of secondary benefits (for example,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees that the rate of carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit should be increased to €325 in recognition of the significant and unavoidable costs of care faced by caring families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29193/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support the request of an organisation (details supplied) to increase the carer's allowance to €325; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29206/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support the proposal that the carer’s allowance means test should be based on net, not gross, income, in line with the assessment of earnings under carer’s benefit which is based on earnings less income tax, USC, PRSI, superannuation (pension payments), pension levy, union dues, subscriptions to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to increase the weekly travel allowance allowed in the carer’s allowance means test from €15 to €50 to reflect the rate of fuel inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29195/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to increase the 18.5-hour ceiling for people in receipt of carer’s allowance who want to undertake training or education, while providing full-time care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29196/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support the request of an organisation (details supplied) to make the carer's allowance a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29207/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (2 Jul 2024)

Carol Nolan: 281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite the decision on an application for carer's allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27935/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes will be made to the condition regarding qualification for full carer’s allowance whereby people who are in receipt of a State pension (contributory) are only entitled to apply and claim for half-rate carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26639/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if beneficiaries of temporary protection have been means-tested as part of the carer's allowance application process during the period March 2022 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25943/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if international protection applicants, both those employed and unemployed, have been means-tested as part of the carer's allowance application process during the period 2019 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25944/24]

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

Carol Nolan: ...it, particularly its call for the Government to establish a high-level officials group to scope out and develop a road-map for the delivery of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers. Many of us have repeatedly called for greater levels of support for carers, even while accepting that a significant amount of Government funding is allocated. That being said, I make...

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

Carol Nolan: In the referendum we will vote on this Friday, there are absolutely no new rights for carers or disabled people. The fact that legislation is being rushed and guillotined is also of serious concern. It is an insult to the intelligence of people and the electorate. A total of €20 million of taxpayers' money is being lashed out on this referendum. That €20 million could have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (18 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the conditions that must be fulfilled for a person to claim carer's credits; what evidence is required or would be accepted to prove a person was a carer if, for example, they never applied for carers allowance but engaged in caring for a family member for a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45388/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...people will have got something, almost everyone got little enough to make a big difference. However, to be fair, there is much that was announced today that will be welcome. The increase in social welfare payments and carer's rates will all be welcome, even if they do not go quite as far as me and my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group would have liked and as we had proposed in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: As already mentioned, and as the Minister will be aware, carers do fantastic work. There is no doubt about that. I believe that every Deputy in the House would agree with that statement. Carers save the State €20 billion every year, in addition to the fantastic work they do. Family Carers Ireland support some 500,000 carers across the State. That is not enough, however, in the...

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Carol Nolan: I am sharing time. I fully support the motion and, in particular, the call to introduce an integrated transport system for people with disabilities and their carers, a scheme that would ensure flexible arrangements, the provision of funding and a comprehensive transport support scheme to replace the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant as a priority. In my constituency,...

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

Carol Nolan: ...replacement for the home help, people are let down very badly. Something needs to be done in regard to recruitment and retention. If we are to address recruitment and retention issues for home carers, we need to offer better pay and conditions. Mileage, which has been brought to my attention, is a huge issue for home helps. They are doing fantastic work but they are stretched....