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Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Noel Grealish: I thank Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh for all the work she did in putting this motion together. We continually hear praise being lavished on people who act as full-time carers for others. They are often described as heroes, and rightly so. However, the motion we are discussing today is an attempt to go further and do something concrete for the people who look after the most vulnerable in our...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Noel Grealish: ...Executive (HSE) Home Support Service (formerly called the Home Help Service or Home Care Package Scheme) aims to support older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, and to support informal carers; — the HSE Home Support Service aims to also support people with a disability who need home help; — the Home Support Service is available to people aged 65...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 May 2023)

Noel Grealish: 746. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for home support carers and funding in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023 for each LHO and CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 May 2023)

Noel Grealish: 747. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of people on waiting lists for home support carers, by length of time waiting, by LHO and CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Noel Grealish: 758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-EU carers who have taken up work permits to work in the care industry in Ireland; the total number of permits available; the reasons for the poor uptake; the steps he intends to take to improve the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24228/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (31 May 2022)

Noel Grealish: 449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that family carers are limited to an 18.5 hours working week when receiving carer's allowance and carer’s benefit, when other social welfare benefit schemes allow 19.5 hours per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27308/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (31 May 2022)

Noel Grealish: 450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that carer's allowance and carer's benefit are not included in the Benefit of Work Estimator, the State’s free online calculator tool which helps job seekers to find information on welfare payments in order to make an informed decision about their return to work; if there are plans to include these two...

Mobility and Transport Supports for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (16 Feb 2022)

Noel Grealish: ...tax, VRT, when buying cars that are accessible or adaptable for wheelchair use. These exemptions have substantially reduced the ultimate cost to the buyer, who is typically a wheelchair user or a carer of a wheelchair user, including parents of children with serious disabilities. These are people who already have to cope with huge expenses associated with a disability. Most adapted...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (26 Mar 2020)

Noel Grealish: ...is denied a right or a service, or is forced to leave his or her home in the coming weeks to renew such documents. I ask that the Covid-19 emergency payment be made available to widows and to full-time carers who because they worked part-time are not eligible for social welfare top up. This needs to change because these households have lost a significant element of their incomes....

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Noel Grealish: ...people can visit, enjoy social interaction and take part in various activities and educational programmes to enable them to continue living independently. The centre also provides a day respite service for carers of people suffering from long-term illness. Various activities and educational programmes are provided which are specifically designed for the elderly community to keep them up...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Noel Grealish: ...owing to family circumstances. That leaves people suffering financially while awaiting a decision on their case. In my experience, the majority of applications for certain payments, for example, carer's allowance, disability allowance, domiciliary care allowance and invalidity pension, are refused by the Department of Social Protection, with the decision subsequently being overturned by...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Noel Grealish: I will not rehearse what previous speakers stated. Everyone is aware of the tremendous work done by carers and of the money they save the State by keeping people in their own homes. Like Deputy Nulty and others, I would like to know why the Labour Party dropped a proposal it put forward in the context of the budget to the effect that there be a 3% increase in the universal social charge....

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (12 Jun 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the up to date numbers of recipients in 2012 for each of the following: carers allowance, carers allowance recipients caring for more than one person, half rate carer's allowance, half carer's allowance recipients and name of second social welfare payment received, carer's benefit, respite care grant 2011, respite care grant recipients...

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (17 May 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the Minister who will have responsibility for promoting the national carer's strategy in line with the commitment in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11619/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (9 Oct 2007)

Noel Grealish: ...who have received cash care grants in order to prevent and address the abuse of vulnerable older people, and to ensure that proper PRSI and PAYE statutory obligations have been met for employed carers through the home care package cash grant scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22453/07]

Labour Affairs: Motion (Resumed). (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Grealish: What about the limitations on working hours, our extensive health and safety provisions, statutory redundancy, carer's, maternity and adoptive leave? Those opposite need to get real. In 1997 there was 12% unemployment in this country. At that time, Sinn Féin, rather than addressing serious economic issues, was busy avoiding the condemnation of killings and bombings.