Results 1-10 of 10 for carers speaker:Timmy Dooley

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Help Service (22 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...job because it is flexible work. What is killing them in the current climate is the cost of travel. The profile of the Minister of State's constituency is not that much different from mine. A carer might care for a person who lives ten or 15 miles from where the carer lives and visit that person at 8 a.m. By 11 a.m. the carer has to be with another person somewhere else. By 2 p.m. the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (12 Mar 2021)

Timmy Dooley: As the Minister of State well knows, family carers are an invaluable but undervalued element of the healthcare service in Ireland. Over 350,000 carers provide essential care on a daily basis to over 400,000 people saving the State an estimated €10 billion a year, which is very significant. Many of these carers devote a major part of their lives to caring for a loved one in situations...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (12 Mar 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...Minister of State and welcome her very honest appraisal. I am not for a moment suggesting that this is simple. The numbers may not be that great when it comes down to it. There are many family carers who are elderly. A husband or a wife who is looking after his or her spouse is likely to be in or around the same age, or a little younger in some cases. These people will be addressed in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (7 Sep 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 1316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) that applied for carer's allowance on 9 March 2018 will receive a decision on their claim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36836/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care (27 Feb 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla will support suitable approved long-term foster carers in applying to become non-relative guardians under the recently enacted powers of section 6C(2)(b) of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964, as amended by the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; if there will be restrictions on rights granted to foster carers if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (22 Jan 2015)

Timmy Dooley: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for not processing a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare who is in receipt of carer's allowance for a spouse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3073/15]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Timmy Dooley: ...e-mail in question sets the tone with regard to why we really need to re-examine the position on this matter. It states:It is with deep regret that I learned about the proposed Single Person Child Carer Tax Credit in the most recent Budget - it effectively means that I now face the reality of having to reduce the contact time I am currently granted with my two children in order to save...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Carer's Allowance Applications (8 Nov 2012)

Timmy Dooley: To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive is concerned about delays in processing applications for carer's payments; the implications of such delays for health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48926/12]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2008)

Timmy Dooley: ...put in place, but it is important to manage the available finances as well as possible. The increase of €7 per week for all State pensioners, whether contributory or non-contributory, along with carers aged 66 and over from January 2009 is helpful. The jobseeker's allowance will increase by €6.50 per week, notwithstanding what Deputy Shortall said, bringing that to €204.30 per...

Seanad: Autism Services: Statements (Resumed). (19 May 2004)

Timmy Dooley: ...Government's delivery of services. Certain facilities and professional services are not as readily available in some parts of the country as they are in more built-up areas. I have experience of a carers group in the Loop Head area of my home county of Clare. Senator Daly and I have met representatives of the group on two occasions in recent weeks. They outlined their grave concerns and...