Results 1-20 of 58 for carers speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50520/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is her intention that foster carers be allowed to maintain a social protection stamp/credit while continuing their foster caring and not be required to fulfil the signing-on requirements for jobseeker's credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39770/23]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: .... It is something I have been acutely aware of for a very long time. In describing the issue, I am not saying that it is in any way easy to resolve. It is profoundly difficult but the issue of carers is something that we all understand acutely. In the model of supports that we provide in this country, families want to do best by the people they love and they need to have the full...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Dec 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a disallowance of carer’s allowance and carer’s support in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61701/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Mar 2021)

Brendan Howlin: 1770. To ask the Minister for Health the position of home carers in the vaccine roll-out schedule; if home carers are designated as essential workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15387/21]

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ..., there is, unfortunately, a sea of hidden abuse that we will see after this pandemic ends. As we know, women in the workforce constitute the majority of front-line healthcare workers. They are nurses in our hospitals, carers and home carers. They have been carrying an extraordinary burden. They are now at the end of their tether. They are at their wits' end. They need recognition,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Brendan Howlin: 448. To ask the Minister for Health if carers of vulnerable persons in the home are scheduled yet to receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2200/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...a surplus next year of 0.2% of GDP, or €700 million, having provided €5 per week to every pensioner or anybody in receipt of a social welfare payment, including the disability benefit or carer's benefit. What it does do is ask the banks to pay their fair share. It is amazing that the Taoiseach believes asking the banks to pay their share in the normal times of funding the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government (26 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: The 124 page annual report on A Programme for a Partnership Government was published in May but at no point does it address the national carers' strategy. The programme for Government committed to the implementation of the 2012 national carers' strategy in full and the most recent progress report on the strategy was published in 2017. However, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...the holding of a debate on this matter. The responses given by the Taoiseach do not meet the concerns that all Members are hearing in their constituencies and from organisations lobbying for carers.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (11 Jun 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23429/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (21 May 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21632/19]

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

Brendan Howlin: 1403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a review of the decision not to grant them carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18588/19]

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

Brendan Howlin: 1404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a review of the rate of carer's allowance for 2018 by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18601/19]

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

Brendan Howlin: 1422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a review of the decision to refuse their application for carer's allowance. [18973/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42036/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...hospitals, schools, child care and needed enterprise supports to benefit all of us. The decision to spend nearly €300 million on tax cuts is a mistake, as I have argued already. The USC and income tax changes do not really benefit those who are notionally squeezed, including renters, carers and those facing impossibly expensive child care costs. Rather than giving back workers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (18 Sep 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be reached on an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37271/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (15 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20809/18]

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...involved for every week a payment is made. Will all the increases in social welfare benefits be paid in the same week? Will recipients of the pension, the blind pension, disability benefit and carer's allowance receive increases on the same day or will the increases be staggered? Alternatively, are all these matters still under discussion? If the latter is the case, it would be an...