Results 1-20 of 39 for carers speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have the carers allowance payment re-instated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52018/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (detailed supplied) will receive a decision on a carers support grant application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49177/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Dec 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have a decision on their application for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jul 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on an application for the carer's benefit for a person (details supplied) given that the carer has serious health issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37794/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 2022)

Marc MacSharry: ...additional needs and their siblings through the National Council for Special Education; if she will liaise with the Minister responsible for Employment Affairs on relaxing the means-test for the carer's allowance for the summer months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31828/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (14 Jun 2022)

Marc MacSharry: ...and a cross-departmental team on something else. The reality is that this is a problem now. When we get to early autumn and into winter, it is going to be a much worse problem. We must pay home carers more money and remunerate them for adequate expenses, especially given the astronomical rise in costs. If we do not do that, then we will have a major problem in our hospitals, nursing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (14 Jun 2022)

Marc MacSharry: ...on this issue. In the context of a previous matter, another Deputy appealed to the Minister of State to make work permits available to people who are prepared to join the workforce in Ireland as carers because there is such a shortage of staff in this area. I would support that as something which may help to address the problem. We are reaping the rewards of a very short-sighted...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...to consider paying the difference between those sums. Another problem is that people who choose to work part time for lifestyle reasons are entitled to the full €350 per week but people who are on half-carer's allowance to care for a loved one at home and is a part-time teacher working substitute hours is not entitled to the Covid-19 payment. They are some of the anomalies I am...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 Dec 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for a carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52590/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ..., with the percentage that went to of full-time employment, part-time employment, back on the live register, and that went on to another income support scheme, whether disability, invalidity or carer's allowance, if possible?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...important, namely, the percentages of full-time employment, part-time employment, people who went back on the live register, and those who went on to other income support schemes, like disability, carers, etc. All of us here and indeed anybody in the political business will have constituents who have become unemployed recently coming into us and expressing frustration that they cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (9 Jul 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for an extension to carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29878/19]

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (3 Jul 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...the Cope Gallagher, the late Flor Crowley and former Senator Bernard McGlincey. If only the walls of No. 30 could talk, there was much wisdom imparted by Mark Killilea to other people who went on to have very successful carers in their own right. While they were the originals, later there was the former Minister, John Browne, and the former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, who all went there. ...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Was the increase substantially eaten up by whatever agreements were in place with carers for remuneration, travel subsistance payments and so on?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer's benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (6 Feb 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who were receiving a prescribed relative allowance, PRA, for providing full-time care to a relative, which was subsequently replaced by a carer's allowance, will be awarded home caring credits for the period that they were receiving the PRA under the new total contributions approach for calculating pensions in recognition of their...

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

Marc MacSharry: ...on several occasions in this House and before that in the Seanad, I again queried whether any research had been done on the potential benefit of loosening or relaxing the means test for the carer's allowance, which, together with the provision of a medical card, some home help hours and perhaps a housing adaptation grant, might help to afford people the dignity of staying at home and avoid...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...we are not doing our job correctly or others are subverting the process. We need to examine that because €4.2 million is being spent on the appeals office that I am sure could be better spent on carer's allowance or whatever. Is there cross-departmental consistency on determining criteria? Does Mr. McKeon sit down with his counterparts in the Departments of Education and Skills,...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...sure the opening of Stepaside Garda station had the support of the Civil Service Management Board too but that is another matter. Has there been a cross-departmental assessment or cost analysis of carer's allowance with the Department of Health, the HSE, disability services or local authorities, to see if a loosening of the criteria for carer's allowance is possible? Could we reduce,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will have a decision on a carer's allowance application in view of the fact that the person concerned is due to travel shortly abroad with their child for treatment which cannot be provided here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41047/17]