Results 1-20 of 52 for carers speaker:Frank Feighan

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...-time cannot access Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grants. We have to address this to make sure that people who choose part-time education, either because they already have a job or are carers, benefit from these State supports to complete their degrees. Will the Minister update the House on any plans to reduce the cost of part-time education?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Dec 2023)

Frank Feighan: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision regarding the review of their carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54926/23]

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (17 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...the national fuel scheme; jobseeker's allowance for more than six months and have a child aged under seven years; family income supplement; one-parent family payment; domiciliary care allowance; carer's allowance where a person lives with the person he or she is caring for; and disability allowance for more than six months and have a child under seven years of age. A number of reforms to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (17 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...-living lump sum to all families getting the working family payment. The double payment of child benefit will support all families with children. A €500 cost-of-living payment will be paid in November to people in receipt of the carer's support grant. A €500 cost-of-living disability support grant will be paid to all people in receipt of a long-term disability payment. We...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Help Service (13 Jul 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...that are experiencing increased pressures due to staff availability are particularly affected. At the end of May 4,720 people who had been assessed and approved for home support were waiting for a carer to be assigned to them. In January 2020, approximately 1,300 people were in this category. Despite the increase, it is important to note that the total number of people waiting for home...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Help Service (13 Jul 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...objective to meet the continued increased demand. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has established an advisory group to examine the relevant issues, including the obstacles to recruiting carers, and to make recommendations. The group, which is engaging with key stakeholders, will publish its report in September. I look forward to its publication. In addition, work to progress the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (6 Jul 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...can be for those families and children. Advances in technology and treatment for many of these rare, but serious, conditions are continually emerging, which is very welcome for the families and carers of these children. Newborn bloodspot screening, or the heel prick test as it is more commonly known, can identify some of these treatable, rare conditions in infants. The expansion of the...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...policy is to support older people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. The Government recognises the important role that family carers play in the provision of care in Ireland. I would like to restate what my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, said about family carers and how they are the backbone of care provision...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (22 Jun 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...developments in the area. The Minister for Health and I fully appreciate that sickle cell disease can place a substantial medical, social and financial burden on patients, their families and their carers. The Senator outlined exactly what Ms Esther Onolememen and her children had to go through regarding the lack of screening. It is a lifelong, inherited condition that affects both...

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

Frank Feighan: ...challenges in the home support and nursing home sectors. Accordingly, the group is examining issues such as recruitment, retention, training, career development and pay and conditions of front-line carers in these sectors so that solutions can be found. The group's deliberations will be informed by an evidence review of the role, function and supply of home support workers in four...

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

Frank Feighan: ...home support has fallen from over 9,000 at the start of 2020 to 5,068 by the end of May 2022. In providing clarity on the roles of service providers, home support workers, service users and family carers, the regulation of the home support sector will ensure the quality of home support services and safeguard service users. The work of the strategic workforce advisory group is progressing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jun 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...consequences for both physical and mental health and can particularly impact older age groups, those with chronic health problems, people with mental health difficulties and psychosocial needs, carers, single parents, migrant and immigrant and minority ethnic groups. In recognition of the supports that social prescribing can provide, the Programme for Government, 2020, Our Shared Future,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service (31 Mar 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...access to high-quality, regulated home care. It is important to note that progress has been made in this area. At the end of January 2022, 4,836 people had been assessed and were waiting for a carer to become available. This is a reduction from December 2021, when 5,322 people were waiting for a carer to become available. There are issues that need to be dealt with but the total number...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Mar 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...not exhaustive but includes doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, porters, cleaners etc. who work in clinical settings. The measure also encompasses healthcare support assistants, also known as home carers or home help, employed by or carrying out duties contracted to the HSE. It also encompasses those eligible working on site in long-term residential care facilities for people with...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (16 Feb 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...aged 18 to 65 years; a children’s disability network team providing therapeutic family-centred clinical assessments and interventions for children with complex needs; and providing support to the carers, service providers and the local community with the emphasis on sharing resources, skills, knowledge and expertise. The HSE has advised that community health organisation, CHO, 8 is...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Home Care Packages (16 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I recognise that it is a very complex issue. I know from personal experience that trying to get carers is a difficulty. It is a key priority of the Government to enable more people to engage in services that allow them to remain independent and to live in their own homes with dignity and independence for as long as possible. In order to advance...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Mental Health Services (16 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...consultant input is also available. A member of the independent Irish Advocacy Network is part of the project steering group, in addition to a mental health service user family member and carer engagement representative, to ensure the residents and families continue to have independent supports available throughout the process. The process of engagement with the staff is also being...

Seanad: Carer's Allowance: Motion (10 May 2021)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the issues that concern family carers. I thank Senators Mary Seery Kearney and Martin Conway for laying this timely and welcome motion before the House. Family carers are the backbone of care provision in our country. Whether caring for a child, a parent with a disability or illness, or an elderly family member, carers through their...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Frank Feighan: In the concluding stages of this debate it is right to acknowledge the admiration held by all Members of this House for family carers. Every day tens of thousands of people provide care for relatives, friends, neighbours and others. They may come from various walks of life and begin caring responsibilities at different points in their lives but these people share a common love for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...targeted activities towards specific population cohorts, such as: older persons (Including those in long term residential care), children and youth (parents), ethnic minorities and migrants, people with a disability, carers, and lower socioeconomic groups. Central to these projects is supporting individuals and communities across all age groups and social backgrounds to engage in creative...