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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputy Tully for raising this matter. As she will be aware, one of the main ideas in the Green Paper I published for consultation last year was to consolidate disability allowance, blind pension and invalidity pension into one single payment. I sought people's views on an approach to providing additional support to those most in need by increasing payments for those people with most...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Pauline Tully: ...the personal support payment. While the Green Paper has been scrapped, and for good reason, there were proposals within which merited further analysis and I believe this is one. In our consultation with disabled individuals and DPOs, there was a cautious welcome from many for this proposal. The current system does not meet the needs of disabled people. It is cumbersome and stressful....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: ...people are on long-term illness benefit. For children there is domiciliary care allowance. The Green Paper, in fairness, was trying to put a more unified and coherent approach to this so that everybody would receive what would be known as a personal support payment. That is what the proposal in the Green Paper was attempting to do. I accept we did not get it right. It is clear people...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Pauline Tully: The Green Paper also proposed higher rates for disability payments, and that, too, needs to be progressed. The cost of disability payment needs to be looked at. The priority is to ensure no person is living in poverty. I also refer to a number of constituents who have come to my office because their payment has been cut or curtailed without any warning. There may be perfectly good reasons...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome that we now realise from our meetings that the Green Paper was not going to work. However, the Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities in 1996 recommended there should be a gradual payment to meet additional everyday costs associated with disabilities. This has come up with me recently too. There is no overall payment to cover the cost of disability in Ireland....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)
Heather Humphreys: That is what I am trying to do and what the Green Paper was trying to do, but people were not happy with it. I listened to their concerns. There is a lot of information and we did a lot of consultation during the Green Paper when it was published. We will take lessons from those too. There is now a Cabinet committee and I know there will be a huge focus on this. We have to come together...