Results 1-20 of 249 for carers speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...are quite bizarre. Let us take a small farmer on ten acres or 10 ha of poor land. We know what he has from the Department of agriculture, it is awfully easy to figure out. In some of the means-testing, say, for a carer's allowance at €900 per week, if they have only got €2,000 in grants, they are unlikely to have €50,000 or €10,000 of cattle to sell. They...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for carer’s allowance submitted on 15 February 2024 (details supplied) in respect of a person caring for an individual who is terminally ill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17699/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...as to how they organise their lives. Generally-speaking, the Department does not count the first €20,000 of income and it ignores the first €50,000 of income for the disability allowance and carer's allowance. After that, for the next €10,000, it assess it at €1 per €1,000 per week, which is equivalent interest of 5%. The next €10,000 is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The issue of carers needs to be considered in its own right. The means test is a huge issue. There are calls to abolish it and I understand the rationale behind the calls. However, I can hear the alarms bells ringing in Government Buildings and in the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. In a situation like this, the income thresholds need to be increased. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...live. I understand what she is saying. There is a human problem, as I try to figure it out in my own mind. This issue comes before us as constituency politicians when a person comes in to query carer's allowance to do with a cancer diagnosis. In most cases, it is the caree that comes in so we are not stuck with the awkward questions. In many cases, the person who comes in to us is the...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., it was just causing more grief, more administration and so on. I hope that this is the first of many changes this year. The Minister has brought in changes previously and has done good work on the means-testing of the carer's allowance and the fuel allowance, in particular, which is very welcome. I am looking forward to the report the Department is preparing on social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for carer’s allowance (details supplied) will be processed and a decision made on it; the reason for the delay in processing this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57223/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the new rules for the granting of paid contributions to long-term carers; whether there is a minimum number of paid contributions from employment or self-employment required before a person can be granted long-term caring paid credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55980/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increased disregard of income for the carer’s allowance will come into operation, which will see the first €450 of income for a single person and €900 for a couple disregarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55981/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome that because it will make a huge difference, along with the change in the means test for the carer's allowance, which is getting nearer to the target the social welfare committee was heading towards and the recommendation of a disregard of the first €500 for a single person and the first €1,000 for a couple. It is getting much nearer to that, at €450 and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is a simple enough question. Can the Minister of State give an update on the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by his Department, and outline-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am taking Questions Nos. 96, 99 and 101. It is my field day. The question is, what are the changes to caring credits? I know they are very beneficial and long-term carers are included but the Minister of State might outline what they are.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...be of major importance. The Minister of State might confirm something else for me. It is related but not exactly on the same topic. Are all of these changes to means testing, including the carer's allowance means test, all coming in on 1 January, except for child benefit? I am aware that child benefit is not.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for carer’s allowance will be processed and a decision made on it; and if she will make a statement on the matter (details supplied). [49134/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for carer’s allowance will be processed and a decision made (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46532/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a review of a carer’s allowance payment will be carried out (details supplied) as requested by the carer due to a change in means; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45922/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...accounts. It is farcical, of course, that the Department is telling couples who love each other not to share, where one was the main earner and the other was the main worker, by which I mean a carer at home. This is a big problem for people coming to pension age now where there was a common arrangement. I believe that 70% of couples were in predominantly one-income houses where,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...standing pensioners, the Department is not writing to them and asking them. That is something I always check when they come in under the IQA, whether they had stamps of their own and could get the carer's credit. That is not what the Department is writing out to people about. It is doing an update, a needs assessment. If people had been warned and been told then what they have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the witnesses for the interesting presentation. There is a lot wrong with the system and it is not just the carer’s allowance. There was an interesting comment earlier about marginalised people applying for the carer's allowance and the challenges of bureaucracy . As members of this committee will know, it is my hobby horse to point out that marginalised people face...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If I could invite carers into the group, caring for the elderly, for example, tends to be time-limited. I am probably the oldest person in the room but when you reach a certain age you see your friends die. Caring for a child born with a significant disability is a totally different situation. In my experience, in many of those cases, that is where we tend to come up against the issue of...