Results 1-20 of 69 for carers speaker:Marian Harkin

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

Marian Harkin: First, I wish the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, well in her new role. I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion, which calls on the Government to abolish the carer's allowance means test and establish a high-level working group to do the groundwork in preparing for the delivery of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers. I have lost count of the...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...motion is aptly entitled "disability justice", and I support its asks. There may be some nuances around the means testing for certain payments but I fully support having no means testing for the carer's allowance, whether that is called carer's allowance or a guaranteed living wage. You do not get carer's allowance unless you care full-time for a person who needs full-time care....

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which takes an overarching view on the absolute need to provide greater supports to people with disabilities and carers. It is also very interesting and timely to see that today, IBEC issued a detailed report entitled Better Care Better Business. Many of the recommendations in the IBEC report are very similar to those in the Sinn...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the most recent figure on the number of carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, excluding those on a half-rate carer’s allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer’s allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 caring for one person, aged under 66 caring for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: 239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the number of carers receiving a half-rate carer’s allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of the half-rate carer’s allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 caring for one person, aged under 66 caring for two or more...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: 61. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the poor performance by the Government on the delivery of commitments and progress for family carers as outlined in the family carer scorecard 2023 published by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1701/24]

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...Constitution. I will do so with reservations but sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture and the greater good. All my political life, I have campaigned for adequate support for family carers and all that entails. Family carers, I have always said, along with volunteers, are the glue that holds our society together. They allow our societies, as we have constructed them, to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2023)

Marian Harkin: This afternoon our first thoughts are with a little girl and her carer who are gravely ill in hospital following a horrific knife attack. Second, we extend our heartfelt thanks to those who intervened, and to all the services for helping protect our capital city from mindless violence, and far right-fuelled hatred and fury. However, I want to raise the broader issue of migration policy in...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...home care provision and what we need to see is an expansion of these services and not in any circumstances a diminution of these crucial supports. I, like others, fully support the call that home carers be paid at a minimum a living wage rate of €14.80 per hour with reasonable payment for mileage expenses and travel time between the care locations. As I said earlier, many home...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...to mention one or two other issues, to which I will return over the coming days and weeks as we discuss these proposals in detail. I welcome the increase in the income disregard for payment of the carer's allowance. It is precisely the level of increase my Private Member's motion called for last March, and while it brings carers back only to the level they were at in 2008, it means more...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (23 May 2023)

Marian Harkin: 650. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider, as a matter of priority, an increase in the weekly allowance paid to foster carers, which has not seen an increase since 2009, and before that, in 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24050/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is eligible to receive the carer's support grant. [15541/23]

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...Primary School in Sligo to the Dáil today. I think they were in the Gallery earlier. I think another school is there now. I am delighted that they got a chance to hear this important debate on carers and caring because the truth is that many of those students will, in time, have to either give care or be the recipient of care. That is the reality for all of us. If we are lucky...

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...: notes that: — according to the Central Statistics Office's (CSO) Irish Health Survey 2019, one in eight people over the age of 15 provide care, and therefore there are approximately 500,000 family carers in Ireland; — the 2018 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children survey, sponsored by the Department of Health, shows that 13.3 per cent of young people between the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (21 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: 1003. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he would consider a specific bursary for young carers attending third level institutions, similar to the successful young carer's grant launched in Scotland in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12703/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: 1004. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider further initiatives to support the transition of young carers to further and higher education and apprenticeships via access programmes, similar, but in addition to, the HEAR programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12704/23]

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: Tonight we are discussing another motion on high energy costs, and with good reason. Everyone in this Chamber is receiving emails and is meeting constituents, families, individuals, carers, people with disabilities, those on low, fixed incomes, those who have to measure the value of every €5, indeed every euro, they spend, and people telling us they cannot make ends meet. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...talked about the benefits of the European Union or how it impacted on the audience, most people were too busy to come to meetings like that. If it is sectoral specific, however, you can speak to carers about legislation that is pending or in train that impacts on them. You can speak to people with disability about the disability strategy. I will not mention farmers because they come to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure for the number of carers in receipt of the carer's allowance excluding those on a half-rate carer's allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer's allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 years caring for one person aged under 66 years...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the number of carers receiving a half-rate carer's allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of the half-rate carer's allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 years caring for one person, aged under 66 years caring for two or more people,...