Results 1-20 of 37 for carer's speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...' PRSI threshold, which would help to reduce the tax burden on businesses and support workers. Many other social commitments, such as pension reforms, hikes in child benefit and scrapping the means test for carers have been shelved or quietly rolled back. The auto-enrolment pension scheme, which Sinn Féin supports, remains poorly managed and risks increased exposure to market...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend all the home carers and the people who are providing a great service. We need to have some truth around this situation because the Minister of State knows, going back to 2007 and 2008, we had an excellent home care service in this country. The HSE and the Minister for Health at the time went around and they chopped and chopped and privatised the service. They privatised home...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1029. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of the carer’s allowance, and who has passed the means test for the fuel allowance, is assessed for the fuel allowance in their own right or does everyone in the household need to qualify in order for the applicant to be successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11644/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Mar 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1030. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the carer’s allowance who have applied for the fuel allowance; and of these, the number of applications who have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11645/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (27 Feb 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for the carer’s allowance will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8605/25]

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire and Pauline Tully, for bringing this debate to the House and for insisting that our last debate on Private Members’ business would be on carers because it is such an important issue. I will set out why the Government needs to engage with and act on the concerns of carers about the punitive carer’s allowance means test...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...- the sense of injustice. People know that, come next February and March, they will be in the very same position as they were before this. It certainly keeps them in their place, whether that be carers or young people looking for a house. I listened with interest to all the talk about the need for people to have jobs. We talked earlier about choices. The choice that people from...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...many people are now falling through. This Government's budget is a lost opportunity to enact a progressive social protection agenda. The Government's mean-spirited approach to the thousands of carers across the State is one example of a Government that is out of touch. We know that carers are at much higher risk of poverty, yet carers across the State have been told to wait until July...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... Poverty rates by households headed by people with disabilities are unconscionably high with 39% of this group experiencing poverty. We must ratify the optional protocol to the UNCRPD and fully implement and resource the necessary actions. Carers who provide unparalleled service to those in their care and to the State have also been forced by the Government to become campaigners....

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...in addressing inflation and public infrastructure deficits. In terms of inflation, 671,000 people are still living in poverty in this State and more than 188,000 of them are children. Pensioners, carers and people with disabilities are worse off today than they were four years ago. That is what the evidence shows. People are actually worse off because wages and social welfare benefits...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish the Minister of State well in her new job. It is a really important role, particularly when it comes to carers. She knows that carers, and family carers in particular, comprise one of the most neglected groups of people in the State. They save us hundreds of millions of euro, and we pay lip service to their efforts. There are many things we can do. There is not a TD in this House...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I thank my colleague, Deputy Pauline Tully, for bringing forward this motion. We certainly need a more humane approach for people with disabilities and carers. We need to work to make a real and lasting difference in people's lives. I know there will be lots of carers and people with disabilities looking in tonight, and as often happens, the picture that is painted is so...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...committee. The Minister of State probably would not know now, but perhaps will include it in her response to the committee, whether it is still the case that Ireland includes payments to family carers in the healthcare expenditure we report to the OECD. Is that the norm among the OECD countries? Ireland includes the home care services, the group homes in the community for people with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the reasons it warns about the comparability of national figures on health expenditure is that it relies on countries to produce their own data. Is it still the case that in Ireland payments to family carers are included in the healthcare expenditure we report to the OECD? Is it the norm among OECD countries to include such payments in their expenditure?

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...or allocated that without ever measuring those allocations. For example, does the money allocated for disability get to the children with disabilities, to the parents of children with disabilities, to the carers who are caring, or to the people breaking their backs trying to keep this country going? It does not, and the reason it does not is that this Government does not care. I know...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... Why are there young people with disabilities living in nursing homes? Elderly parents of children with disabilities need to know there is an agreed care plan for their children. The Government is failing to provide enough adult day services, respite services and home care packages, pushing carers to breaking point and leaving them in financial stress. Sinn Féin would invest over...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chair for allowing me in. I want to speak on this subject. I welcome what has been said, and I hope it means foster carers will be eligible for pensions after this. It needs to happen as soon as possible. I met a group of foster carers in County Mayo on Monday, and what they told me was quite shocking, particularly with regard to foster carers looking after children with...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...quality of living we should be giving to older people in their own homes. I want to speak about respite, not only for elderly people but also for families who are in desperate situations. Family carers do wonderful a job in the home but they need a break. Siblings also need a break where there are children with disabilities. There was a story in the Mayo Newslast week about a severely...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...not raise the rent because she knew her tenant could not afford it. There are many responsible landlords but there are others who are exploiting the situation out of base. I know of professional carers who work full-time and share a room with five other people, particularly in cities. English-language students are often packed into overcrowded conditions by unscrupulous landlords. I...

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...seem to be going on wholesale. This type of behaviour needs to be called out across all Departments. Many of these students and workers are in low-paid but vital jobs. Many of them worked in nursing homes as carers during the pandemic. They deserve to be treated with respect and protected. The Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019...