Results 1-20 of 21 for carers speaker:Cathal Crowe

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]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (31 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions will be made to ensure the continued payment of carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in a case in which they are in breach of the regular rules. [16687/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...that as we move towards a model of statutory home care, private nursing homes may be pulling from the same pool of people in terms of employment? Are there enough care assistants and home carers in our country or about to be trained up in our country to meet the needs of both systems running concurrently?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 926. To ask the Minister for Health when family carers will be vaccinated for Covid-19. [10018/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 927. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department in conjunction with the Health Service Executive can ensure that family carers receive appropriate quantities of personal protective equipment, PPE; and if he will consider introducing a subvention scheme to alleviate the cost burden associated with the purchasing of same. [10019/21]

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to put a number of points to the Ministers of State and I hope that they will be able to respond within time. Yesterday morning, I met Family Carers Ireland's County Clare branch, which is led by Ms Vicky Ward. It was a virtual meeting, as everything has gone virtual these days. Nonetheless, it was nice to be able to see the carers and engage with them. They have two significant...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Cathal Crowe: ...by a care professional. I have been digging deep into all of this and there is a certain type of person who goes into working in home care in Ireland and the OECD has statistics on this. Home carers in Ireland are 80% female and they are of a certain demographic. There is a trend in western European countries but there are also barriers to these people entering this type of work....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason those in receipt of the carer’s allowance who dedicate their lives to caring for a family member are not considered as qualifying for the contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32445/20]