Results 1-20 of 24 for carers speaker:Duncan Smith

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...and the strategy should have been released earlier. It should have been released a long time ago, when we were in the Dáil and able to discuss it. Of the 18 programme for Government commitments voted on by family carers, which is the real test, four received a score of regressive, six received a score of no progress, five received a score of limited progress, three received a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE HSE home help carers in County Wicklow, in tabular form. [27172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (11 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 449.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if steps can be taken to expedite an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that the Chief Appeals Officer has received an appeal by a person (details supplied) against a decision to refuse his application for carers allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25398/24]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...through the House. I would like clarity on whether additional allowances for dependents will be maintained under the new system. Many people working part time who have to take extended breaks from employment are carers with dependants, be they adults or children. We cannot have a situation whereby these people, some of our most financially vulnerable workers, lose out in the new...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to expedite an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) which was submitted in December 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18224/24]

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...to support disabled people into the workplace, and provide extra places on the disability wage subsidy scheme, as well as reforming the scheme itself. We would work to remove the means test for carer's allowance, which is the next big challenge we believe needs to be faced with urgency in terms of people who are caring for disabled people. On disability services themselves, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Mar 2024)

Duncan Smith: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance to give consideration to committed couples including those with children being jointly assessed for tax purposes and in addition being able to apply for home carer tax credit without being married or being in a civil partnership (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12754/24]

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

Duncan Smith: I thank Sinn Féin for introducing this important motion. Every time we debate disabilities and carers in the Dáil, a structural issue arises. We have an issue like we had in UHL today, for example. The matter is the responsibility of the Minister for Health. If we are talking about taxation reform, the Minister for Finance is responsible, and so on, but responsibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (27 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: 542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Waterford waiting to be assessed for a carer; and the timeframe for when they will be assessed. [8968/24]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...been impacted by what has been reported as a serious incident in the centre of Dublin city. All our thoughts and prayers are with them. I wish to speak to the Minister about a review of the carer's allowance. It is an issue that crops up an awful lot. These are people who are in receipt of carer's allowance and at some point they receive a letter for a review. That is...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...of State-funded home care is provided by private and voluntary providers, but there is no requirement for these contractors to engage in collective bargaining, despite a long-standing recruitment crisis in the sector; and — home carers directly employed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) as Health Care Support Assistants (HCSAs) have better pay, and stronger terms and conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (3 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time HSE home help carers in County Sligo, in tabular form. [42730/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: I have just come from the Family Carers Ireland briefing across the road. In their own words, this is a group that is relied upon but not listened to. I listened to the testimony of Lynsey O'Donovan from Swords who is the carer of her son Jack. They do not want praise or platitudes, they want action. Their prebudget submission has been launched and I am sure the Tánaiste and his...

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

Duncan Smith: ...groups across the country; — a 2021 study on the economic costs and unmet needs of autistic children found the annual cost per child for families amounted to over €28,000 as a result of paying for private autism services, lost income and informal care; — the restrictive means test and low rate of Carer's Allowance payment and complex application for Domiciliary Care...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Support Services (24 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...equitable solution given that it excludes children based on their date of birth; the way that his Department can reconcile the impact of the reduction of this support on the ability of the primary carer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25867/22]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...young people got into the system. They were supposed to be cared for and were not. They were supposed to get the treatment they deserved and was their right but they did not. Parents and carers were, and are, second guessing whether they can engage with the services now, debating whether they have the trust in the services. They must have that trust. We need to make it clear that...

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

Duncan Smith: 1045. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance applications refused in the past year; the number of applications made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1829/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...comes around. If a couple are cohabiting, the Department of Social Protection will assess both their means when carrying out a means test for social assistance payments such as jobseeker's allowance or the carer's allowance. It does not provide any guarantee to contributory social protection payments such as the widow's pension when one of them passes away. The amendment seeks to make...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...out, will have an allocation of €558 million in 2022. It must be measured in more than euro and cent, though. The value of social protection is not on the balance sheet but in the homes of the carers and the cared for. It can provide for, as President Higgins famously said, the social floor under which a person should not fall. We welcome the debate on this Bill. It is...