Results 1-20 of 46 for carers speaker:Damien English

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (13 Dec 2022)

Damien English: ...Older People, Mary Butler, in March 2022. My Department was represented on the Group which was charged with examining strategic workforce challenges in publicly and privately provided front-line carer roles in home support and nursing homes and the Report of the Group was published on 15 October. The Report includes 16 recommendations spanning the areas of recruitment, pay and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (8 Nov 2022)

Damien English: ...Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler, in March 2022. The Group was charged with examining strategic workforce challenges in publicly and privately provided front-line carer roles in home support and nursing homes and with making recommendations to address these. The Group, which was chaired by the Department of Health, comprised representatives from several...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 Oct 2022)

Damien English: ...Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler, in March 2022. The Group was charged with examining strategic workforce challenges in publicly and privately provided front-line carer roles in home support and nursing homes and with making recommendations to address these. The Group, which was chaired by the Department of Health, comprised representatives from several...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: ...offer in respect of full-time versus part-time work and the unsocial nature of those hours. It is also difficult work and a difficult service to provide. Not everyone is fit to do the work of a carer or a healthcare assistant in a home or nursing home. It is only certain individuals who can do it. The Deputy raised the point that these people need to be well paid and looked after. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: ...to staff availability are particularly affected. At the end of April, provisional information shows there were 5,344 people for whom funding for home support had been approved and who were waiting for a carer to be assigned. It is important to note that the total number of people waiting for home support has reduced from more than 9,000 at the start of 2020. Supporting egress from...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: ...advisory group chaired by the Department of Health. Areas being considered by that group include recruitment, retention, training, pay and conditions, and the career development of front-line carers in home support and nursing homes into the future. In some areas where we sanction the use of a permit, it involves training as well. Deputy O'Sullivan mentioned the rate of €27,000,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Monuments (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: ...and prevention of HIV, meaning people with HIV today can live full and enriched lives. The monument will also serve as a tribute to those friends, families, support groups, doctors, nurses, and carers who dedicated so much of their lives and work to the treatment of HIV and to improving care. A committee chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach was established to oversee the design and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: ...While submissions from the home care sector were considered, the most recently concluded review announced towards the end of last year did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/homecarers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggested that the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are factors in the recruitment...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 May 2022)

Damien English: ...announced in June 2021 included removing a number of Health Care occupations from the Ineligible Occupations List. The subsequent review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List at that time as available evidence suggested that contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered were factors...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...they need. We will review the sectors again in the coming weeks. We will start that process. We have tried to respond to genuine proven needs where the evidence is there. Senator Murphy mentioned carers and they are dear to the heart of everyone here, particularly carers in the home. There is an issue with gathering all of the evidence we need to prove we need to use the permit system...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ..., is leading this and trying to put a strategy in place to deal with this matter. We will work very closely with her on that. To focus on what the Deputy asked, and to be very clear, home carers are not on the critical list. At present, they are on the ineligible occupations list. If we are to change that, it has to be based on evidence that shows we need to change and facilitate...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (9 Dec 2021)

Damien English: ...in this case the Department of Health. The results of the most recently concluded review were announced on 28 October 2021. The review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggested that the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are significant factors in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Nov 2021)

Damien English: ...known contextual factors such as Brexit and, in the current context, COVID-19 and their impact on the labour market. Employment permits are not generally granted to allow non-EEA nationals to work as carers, as this occupation is included on the Ineligible List of Occupations for Employment Permits. An exception may be made for an application for employment as a carer in a private home...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (9 Nov 2021)

Damien English: ...this case the Department of Health. The results of the most recently concluded review were announced on 28 October 2021. The review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggested that the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are significant factors in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Home Care Packages (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: ...this case the Department of Health. The results of the most recently concluded review were announced on 28th October 2021. The review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggested that the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are factors in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: ...in this case the Department of Health. The results of the most recently concluded review were announced on 28 October 2021. The review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggested that the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are factors in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (19 Oct 2021)

Damien English: ..., in this case the Department of Health. The results of the most recently concluded review were announced on 14 June 2021. That review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggested that the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are factors in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Oct 2021)

Damien English: ...Group, chaired by my Department and of the relevant policy Departments, in this case the Department of Health. The most recent review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggests that other factors, such as the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (28 Sep 2021)

Damien English: ...Group, chaired by the Department and of the relevant policy Departments, in this case the Department of Health. The most recent review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggests that other factors, such as the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (28 Sep 2021)

Damien English: ...Group, chaired by the Department and of the relevant policy Departments, in this case the Department of Health. The most recent review did not recommend removal of the occupation of care worker/home carers from the Ineligible Occupations List as the evidence suggests that other factors, such as the contracts of employment on offer and employment terms and conditions being offered are a...