Results 1-20 of 28 for carers speaker:Cathal Crowe

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: ...at the Turkish construction sector, which is quite famous around the world. They are known as economy builders. Can we look at that? Turning to the Minister for Finance, the means test for carers s a major plank of the programme for Government. Will he consider front-loading that in budget 2026, as opposed to staging a reduction of the means test across five budgets? It would be a...

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

Cathal Crowe: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he expects the Programme for Government pledge to remove the means test requirement for qualification for a carers allowance payment to be introduced in Budget 2026, or to be phased out incrementally over several years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32785/25]

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

Cathal Crowe: ...elevated office of Minister of State. I will make a few comments as part of this debate. I am glad that the programme for Government includes as a priority the abolition of the means test for carers. It is only right. It is shameful that it has taken this long for it to happen. However, I will make the point that there are currently 100,000 people in this country availing of...

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

Cathal Crowe: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider front-loading the promised removal of the means test for carers in order that the means test is entirely abolished in Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8264/25]

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (12 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: ...lead on policy. I welcome hearing the Deputy speak as a Minister of Government. Fair play to him. One of the big positives in the programme for Government is the abolition of the means test for carer's allowance. Carers do so much work and save our country so much Exchequer money each year by caring for loved ones in the home environment, where people are cared for best. They do all...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (17 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider making the carer's allowance a tax-free payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 323. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if officials from her Department will urgently pass all elements of a case file relating to the refused carer’s allowance payment made by a person (details supplied) to the Office of the Ombudsman, in order that a determination can be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40136/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider revising the long-term carers contribution scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9379/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (13 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county currently in receipt of the carer’s support grant, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55588/23]

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

Cathal Crowe: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing the 'means-testing' criteria as part of the carer’s allowance application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the terms of the tenant purchase scheme to include individuals on carer's allowance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15853/23]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...in the social welfare budget this time around. We saw more people qualifying for the working family payment and the qualified child allowance and the fuel allowance were also increased, as were payments for carers and people on community employment schemes. There are an awful lot of positives. I ask that some fluidity be built into this. Normally, hardships were felt by the people...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...positive legislation, which the Minister has been leading in his Department for some time. It transposes various elements of EU work-life balance directives and also provides rights to parents and carers to help support a better work-life balance. Under this Bill, parents and carers will see several improvements. The first of these is a right to request flexible working, including the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...from the budget measures. A person with a disability living on his or her own stands to see a saving of €2,464. A lone parent with two children under the age of 12 could see a saving of €2,288. A home carer caring for a loved one in a home environment who is in receipt of the fuel allowance could stand to benefit to the tune of €2,540. A single renter with an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 141. To ask the Minister for Health when the Cross-Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants will complete its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37193/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...them for everything they did during Covid. An Post was everywhere when much of society was not circulating. It was brilliant. I only found out the other day that PPE was being brought to home carers. An Post had a partnership with Home Care Ireland that involved the company delivering PPE, including gloves and masks, free of charge to people who could not leave their homes to get it....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 1449. To ask the Minister for Health when community carers will receive their pandemic bonus payment. (details supplies) [29142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 214. To ask the Minister for Health if national community care network carers will be entitled to the healthcare workers bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15510/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 953. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer’s allowance in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 954. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer’s benefit in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1493/22]