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

Denis Naughten: ...on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. They gave us powerful evidence about the challenges they are facing on a daily basis in providing full-time care for their disabled children. They spoke about the impact that the carer's allowance means test is having on them, on their families and on their caring roles. We need to work towards a financial system for...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...figure will undoubtedly rise because of our ageing demographics. Truth be told, having a relative or close friend to provide care is a great blessing indeed, but for many carers, particularly those looking after children with additional needs, the caring responsibility may be the start of decades of responsibility. This has significant and, in some cases, profound implications for...

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

Emer Higgins: ...alone. The income ceiling for this payment will also rise to €450 in June as part of our budget measures. I wish to speak briefly about the domiciliary care allowance payment. Currently, there are 54,652 families in receipt of this payment in respect of 61,373 children. This represents an increase of almost 37% in terms of families and 40% in terms of children in the past five...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...against means testing full stop. I will talk a bit more about that. In the case of carers, it is completely unacceptable. Hundreds of thousands of people in this country, out of care and love for children with special needs or disability, family members, or the elderly who are unwell or disabled, provide them with care and do the State an enormous service in the process. If it was...

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

Gary Gannon: ...often arise later in life and would not have arisen if the State showed adequate support to those affected. Many carers find themselves in precarious situations financially. Some are parents of children with additional needs while others are relatives of ailing elders. They have seen decades of disregard by the State, which has refused to fairly remunerate their hard work. This...

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

Patricia Ryan: ...it before the House. In data compiled by the Central Statistics Office, a carer is defined as someone who provides unpaid assistance to others. Almost 500,000 people, women, men and incredible children under 15 years of age, are carers. These people spend their lives caring for family members, whether it be elderly parents or a child or adult dependant with special needs who will...

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

Seán Sherlock: ...by: a broader review of means test being carried out by the Department of Social Protection, which includes the carer's allowance means test provisions; work being carried out by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth under the Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026 to increase family resilience and provide extra support for carers and their...

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

Pat Buckley: .... Carers are locked in a situation. As previous speakers mentioned, some of these people have never claimed any benefits. I have dealt with cases where mums in particular have cared for their own children for 20 or 25 years and never claimed because they did not even know that they could do so. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this matter. Things have to be...

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

Verona Murphy: ...I will use my time to read what an average carer's day sounds like. It is not necessarily about old people or the elderly among our population. The following example is that of a mother of five children, three of whom have a chromosomal disorder, t(14;21), which is very rare. All three have very complex medical needs with intellectual and physical disabilities and all three are...

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

Peadar Tóibín: ..., in terms of its support of carers, seems to have disappeared completely. We still see child care facilities closing on a weekly basis. We see nursing homes closing around the country. We still see children being put into unregulated care with unvetted staff, and dozens of these children go missing on a monthly basis. In some cases, according to UCD research, some of those children...

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

Mary Butler: ...who have spent their lives caring for loved ones, including, in particular, the many mothers who have had to give up their jobs or who have been unable to work to allow them to care for severely disabled children into their adulthood and who have found themselves coming into what we regard as their retirement years without any income. This year alone, the Department of Social Protection...