Results 1-20 of 78 for carers speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: The wording would not have damaged carers. I am not going to rekindle the debate but I contest very strongly the Deputy's assertion. The Government continues to spend on special needs, carers and disability more generally. Thousands of special education teachers and special needs assistants have been appointed since this Government took office and continue to be appointed. Approximately...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...in school completion and have been all my life. We have very high rates of school completion in Ireland but the school completion rate of the cohort referenced in the report, that is, young carers, is affected by their caring duties, as are their school performance and their progression to third level . I will talk to the Minister for Education and others to see what we can do to assist...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: ..., then you are directly feeding the atmosphere of aggressive and divisive activism we should all be opposing. Our thoughts are first and foremost with those who were shockingly attacked last month, namely, the children and their carer, and we should all unite behind the work of An Garda Síochána and what it did that week. The Minister, Deputy McEntee, and Commissioner Harris...

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

Micheál Martin: ...community, the better. There will be children and young people who will need residential care and families who will need respite care. It seems that the critical issue is the recruitment of carers and professional people who can deal with children and young people who have a diagnosis of severe autism. How this has evolved is not optimal. The Deputy suggested the local authorities...

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

Micheál Martin: ...that people are under pressure and the cost of living is a big issue for them. However, over the past year, our measures supported people, particularly those on fixed incomes, including pensioners, carers and people living with a disability. There were eight lump-sum payments in 2023 alone: the double child benefit payment; the autumn double payment; the €400 lump-sum fuel...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...Management Board. This was in addition to the continued contribution and support of voluntary staff Working Groups on: Gender, LGBT+, Social Inclusion, Disability, Multicultural, and Parents & Carers. This process of consultation across the Department resulted in the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) Action Plan being adopted in June 2022. Work is now underway...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: Is the Deputy referring to the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...cost-of-living lump sum payment for all families getting the working family payment. There is a double payment of child benefit to support all families with children. A €500 cost-of living payment for people receiving the carer's support grant will be paid in November. The €500 cost-of-living disability support grant will be paid to all people receiving a long-term...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...to contribute to the world. That shift is happening and we are sometimes delayed in reflecting it in legislation, the Constitution and our budgeting systems. The Deputy is right about the carer's allowance. We have improved it but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...citizens when it has not been fully explained, and whether they are covering something up. That is my point. We have improved the credits as well in terms of home care credits, tax reliefs, the carer's allowance and so on. Finally, on that overall point, €11 billion was allocated in the last budget in a cost-of-living package. Even that did not enable us to do everything....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...payments will commence on 14 November and 44,000 people will benefit. A disability support grant of €500 will commence payment on 14 November. A further 216,000 people will benefit from that. There is also a €500 carer's support grant to be paid in the week commencing on 21 November. The entirety of the measures we provided for in the budget and which will be rolled out...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: I want to acknowledge that there are issues here that need to be addressed. The Minister and Tusla’s CEO have met and discussed the issues of supports to foster carers. The Minister recognises that foster carers, like many others, are experiencing cost-of-living pressures now. Both the Minister and Tusla want to respond to this in a positive and meaningful way. There is interaction...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Micheál Martin: ..., a double-week payment to all qualifying social protection recipients in October and the normal Christmas bonus will be paid. There is an extra €500 for recipients of working family payments and carer support grants and a double child benefit payment in November. There is a once-off payment before Christmas of €200 to recipients of the living alone allowance and...

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

Micheál Martin: ...deserve our support, and we will continue to oppose the idea that they should be treated unequally. It will apply to all people who receive a principal social welfare payment. Low-income families will benefit in a range of ways. More will qualify for the working family payment. The qualified child allowance and fuel allowance are being increased and so, too, are payments to carers and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Micheál Martin: The report of the Commission on Pensions is being considered by the Government. There is a broad range of proposals in that regard. Any improvements in respect of carer's allowance or broader supports for carers will be considered in the context of the budget.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: To be fair, reform of the carer's means test has been an ongoing issue. In budget 2022, the Government announced significant improvements in the means test for carer's allowance in recognition of the vital role carers play. The general weekly income disregard for carer's allowance will be increased from €332.50 to €350 for a single person and from €665 to €750...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----it has been estimated a universal carer's payment would cost in excess of €1.2 billion per annum over and above current spending, so we have to weigh everything up in terms of all the various schemes we provide.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I want to make the point that in addition to that, there were increases in the carer's allowance in terms of the capital disregard and so forth. Many of the initiatives that were made were welcomed by the carers' association and carers' groups at the time of the budget. The bottom line is this-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...and getting rid of barriers to recruitment, and there is work under way on that, as the Deputy knows, in terms of the group that has been established to deal with specific obstacles to recruiting carers, home carers in particular. I will ask the Minister of State to work with the Deputy in respect of those two cases. Across Wexford, the numbers waiting have come down from approximately...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...public health sector and worked or trained in environments exposed to Covid-19 or clinical settings. Aside from the staff covered by that, staff also intended to be covered by this arrangement are home carers working for and contracted out to the HSE, and agency staff who worked in clinical settings for the HSE, including agency nurses, doctors, cleaners and paramedics. Those working in...