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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...and people in need benefiting the most. There will be an increase of €12 per week in the weekly State pension and across the board for all people on weekly social welfare payments. This is a very welcome move by the Government to help older people, carers and those with disabilities with the rise in the cost of living and of essential items at this time. A double payment will be...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...grant. There will also be a €1,000 increase in the postgraduate tuition fee contribution grant. The Government is extending the 20% public transport fare reduction and the youth travel card discount of 50% to all operators in 2023. There are additional payments of €500 to carers. The Government is introducing a temporary business energy support scheme to assist...

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Finance): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...the budget includes an income tax package that amounts to over €1 billion, with the standard rate cut-off point increasing to €40,000 and the main tax credits, that is, personal, employee and earned income credits, rising by €75. The home carer's tax credit is also being increased by €100 to support stay-at-home parents. The 2% universal social charge, USC,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...of the need for orphan drugs are adequately reflected in Dáil Éireann. All of us in this House fully appreciate how devastating a diagnosis of a rare disease can be for patients, families, and carers. I believe there is cross-party support for doing everything we can to help patients who live with these awful conditions on a daily basis. I know Deputy O'Sullivan has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Feb 2022)

Seán Fleming: 158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a half-rate carers allowance will be paid to either party of a married couple (details supplied); and her views on the practical way this can be achieved. [8624/22]

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Seán Fleming: ...today by saying that we should be spending better. I thought that was hilarious. We are providing money for childcare, increasing the fuel allowance from midnight tonight, increasing the living alone allowance and helping carers in terms of the means test. The back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance is being increased next year.There are several measures in respect of workers...

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...would be on the State pension and would not have got the Covid payment. That is an issue that has been raised but we all know and understand from our daily work that, with the exception of the carer's allowance, a person cannot draw two social protection payments, in this case the State pension and another payment connected with unemployment. That has been the way we have operated and it...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Fleming: 854. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer’s allowance of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2020)

Seán Fleming: 751. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency driver test appointments will be provided for persons whose planned driver tests were cancelled due to Covid-19 and who are carers of adults or children with special needs, which makes urgent their need to be able to drive legally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7160/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the different means test arrangements in place under various social welfare legislation in respect of persons making applications for the carer's allowance versus disability allowance and other payments; if different rules apply regarding the valuation of a second house or property; if the net value of the property having taken into...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (12 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlement to carer's benefit of a person who is working five mornings per week and is essentially in part-time employment; if the full carer's benefit is payable; if it is a pro rata carer's benefit payable; the number of years carer's benefit can be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46350/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (12 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the hours a person can work up to of 18.5 hours per week and claim carer's allowance and-or benefit will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46351/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (12 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer's benefit can be paid to a parent whose son or daughter reaches 16 years of age and will receive a disability payment in his or her own right having previously been on the domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46352/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...issues. She mentioned the travel pass a few times and perhaps she will tell me if I am right or wrong on this issue. Deputies meet constituents with different problems. I met a person who is a carer and had the travel pass as part of the social welfare card, which they could present to Iarnród Éireann to travel to and from Dublin or as the case may be. A point came when this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...to the Department, for some reason, the Department informed it that the person was not entitled to the card. Maybe the Department had not cancelled the entitlement to the travel pass when it cancelled the carer's allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...faring much better. They live on their own and use a community alert device operated via their landline to buzz if something happens. Lightning knocked out their telephone last Friday night. When a carer phoned Eir on her mobile phone from the couple's home she was told the provider could not speak to her as she was not the account holder. The woman of the house then spoke but was told...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: One must ask where we would be without them, collectively. On that note of appreciation for the work foster carers do, I thank the witnesses for their attendance. The committee is agreeing that the Clerk will follow up on any of the information requested by members from witnesses directly. They will liaise with the clerk to get the volume of information. There are figures in the Tusla...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (28 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...in place regarding the exchange of information arrangements between her Department and the Revenue Commissioners in relation to persons' P60s who are in receipt of a means tested payment such as carer's allowance for a number of years and in circumstances in which a person or their spouse’s income increases after taking up employment and the person continues to be in receipt of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (8 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: 1449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance in respect of a period will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19499/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: However, social welfare income is counted, such as carer's allowance and extra things.