Results 1-20 of 103 for carers speaker:Holly Cairns

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. It is always welcome to speak on the issues facing carers but particularly so given the report released by Family Carers Ireland last week. The findings of the report are shameful. It is another report about the disgraceful lack of support for carers and those for whom they care and another reminder that life is harder, more stressful and more...

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

Holly Cairns: ...I speak to who is struggling to get a school place for their child with additional needs has been already fighting with schools, the SENO and the NCSE. Why should they have to? Why does this Government force parents and carers to spend time, energy, which people do not always have in these situations, and money to fight for support to which their children are entitled?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, I said people did not buy the rhetoric on carers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...just said is a really good example of how different the rhetoric is versus the reality of what people experience. The problem with what he is saying is that people have heard it all before. Carers have heard the same promises, not just from him but from his predecessor and the taoisigh before them. Instead of things getting better, they are getting worse. Already threadbare services...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...problems are, namely the housing disaster, the healthcare crisis, the climate emergency and threadbare disability services. The findings contained in the new report published today by Family Carers Ireland are shocking, but they should not be a surprise to any of us. Nearly two thirds of carers have never received any respite. A similar number say they struggle to make ends meet....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Carers and their families were promised a lot. When will the Government actually deliver?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: When will carers have access to at least 20 days respite a year? Will the Government abolish the means test for carer's allowance?

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

Holly Cairns: ...and opportunities are decided based on Government budgets that do not allocate enough funding and they are not based on human rights. In a rights-based system, when you are entitled to a service, you receive it - from SNAs to carers, respite, accessible transport, and independent living accommodation. Ireland is so very far from this. Disabled people face an uphill battle from the day...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: .... The Government's new domestic violence leave is half of the international standard and provides for only five of the ten days required. There is a lot of discussion this week around the role and recognition of family carers. Every one of those carers provides an invaluable service to this State but the State does not, and has never, rewarded them for it and has never really supported...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: There is a great deal of hurt and anger in the country at the moment. Many disabled people and their carers feel forgotten and abandoned by the Government and the referendum. The proposed amendment only gives recognition to care within the family. The Social Democrats attempted to amend this wording to include care in the community and ensure that the State had an explicit obligation to...

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

Holly Cairns: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allocating each application for carer's allowance to a specific staff member in the relevant section of her Department in order to prevent time-consuming repetition of providing information during the application process. [9170/24]

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...wording makes the provision gender-neutral but still restricts the value of care only to the family, it is just symbolic. What tangible change will this referendum make to the rights of women and carers? Will there be such a change? If so, I am genuinely interested in hearing it. There are more than 299,000 unpaid carers in Ireland. That figure has grown by 53% in just six years....

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...further, but the Government refused to engage. Left with no option, the workers balloted for strike action and gave the Government 21 days’ notice of industrial action. Again, the Government refused to engage. People with disabilities, older people, carers and section 39 workers themselves were in an incredible amount of stress over the potential strike. No one wanted to be out...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Holly Cairns: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to support family carers. [32539/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Jul 2023)

Holly Cairns: 388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to make the fuel allowance a qualifying payment for carer’s allowance, including in circumstances where the carer is not resident with the individual they are caring for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32233/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Jun 2023)

Holly Cairns: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure carer's allowance is not included in the assessment of means testing for social housing rents. [30772/23]

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

Holly Cairns: ...address the much larger systemic issue of staff in disability services. When discussing respite services, it is important to understand how important they are for disabled people, their families and carers. Research has consistently shown that respite improves wellbeing. It is about giving everyone a break and giving the individual and families some space. This gives everybody a chance...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...and Youth and the HSE. The recent report by Families Unite for Services and Support, FUSS, which Members will know, has key points that are extremely relevant to this discussion. Its survey of parents, carers, guardians, clinicians and therapists revealed that 97% identified staffing recruitment and retention as a vital threat to the success of service provision. Disability services...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will improve the State pension (contributory) for foster carers by extending the number of homecaring periods that a foster carer can accrue throughout the years they foster; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24356/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on adjusting the qualifications for single person child carer credit to apply to both parents when they are legally separated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21349/23]