Results 1-20 of 76 for carers speaker:Michael Moynihan

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)

Michael Moynihan: .... There is an awful lot of work going on within the Departments and within the Government to improve the State's provision for people with disabilities, their families, their communities and their carers. It is important as well, however, that we send out a signal. We have ratified the UNCRPD, and a lot of work is going on in Departments on that, but a commitment was given to ratify the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Will the Minister look at the figures for those who come off the carer's benefit?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: In the review that is taking place, could we establish how many people who come off the carer's benefit and continue with the carer's support grant do not get the carer’s allowance? Perhaps that information could feed into the interdepartmental discussion group.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to extending the duration of carer’s benefit beyond the current 104 weeks. [46385/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Does the Department have any plans to extend the payment of carer's benefit beyond 104 weeks? Many people go on the benefit to look after a parent, partner or child who has become chronically sick, and that care often must continue for longer than 104 weeks. These people may have years of stamp contributions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister and congratulate her on the disregard increases she has introduced and the amount of work she has done in facilitating the carer's means test. I am fully aware of the work that had to be done to get those figures together. Well done to her on that. She referred to an interdepartmental group. There are a number of issues it could look at. The Minister said the...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Engagement with An Taoiseach (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...then face a challenge regarding their medical card. For a person with a disability, the medical card is golden and provides for their additional medical needs. That should be looked at. On carer's allowance, sometimes a person takes time off or stays within the home to provide care for a partner, son, daughter, sibling or parent and, because of the means test, does not get that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...work, for want of a better phrase, or into employment. Have the witnesses given any thought to such a scheme? Someone on the rural social scheme can, for example, receive the half-rate carer's allowance and the scheme has a number of income disregards. Could the witnesses examine this matter and report back to us? From the evidence and experiences we are hearing, we are trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...Murnane O'Connor. The purpose of today's meeting is to further public awareness of living with a disability. On behalf of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, I welcome, from Family Carers Ireland, Ms Catherine Cox, head of communications and carer engagement, and Ms Jane Johnstone, caring employers promotions officer and family carer. They are very welcome to our first session....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: The means test or carers test is a hugely important issue right across the country. When somebody goes on carer's benefit, they get two years on it. The State considers that they are coming off paid employment or maybe part-paid employment. This brings me back to Deputy Tully's point on the retrospective payments. When people who have been carers for in excess of 20 years find that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...information this morning. It is hugely important. The more information we have, the better we can do. We will follow up on a letter with the Minister to try to get that meeting with Family Carers Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the witnesses and members very much. On Senator Flynn's suggestion, we will write to the Minister and try to have that agreed for next week. It might be helpful for the letter that Family Carers Ireland wrote to the Minister to be circulated to the team so that the members would have it and we would understand the questions and issues. That would be helpful from our point of view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I must leave the meeting for ten minutes because I have a question in the Dáil. I have looked at the question of carers. It comes up nearly every week in respect of secondary benefits and people not being able to move on to the next level. I believe the only solution is that where many people who go on to carer's benefit, they come from stamps-paid employment, after two years of which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...beneficial. Families we deal with are extremely grateful for the funding they have received. This issue comes up constantly at the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. The 2001 Act introduced carer's benefit for two years. We can only guess why the average is what it is, but everyone has a fair idea of why that is the case. When a partner gives up a full-time position, having...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has any plans to review the two-year, or 104-week, limit for the carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59213/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to ask the Minister whether she has plans to review the two-year, or 104-week, limit that applies to the carer's benefit and whether she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister for the reply outlining the fact that the average duration is 76.1 weeks. People receiving the carer's benefit are predominantly caring for a relative with a very serious health diagnosis. We constantly come across cases where a partner in a couple has to leave the workforce to provide care to a child full time. Such a person gets the carer's benefit for two years....

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

Michael Moynihan: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase the income disregard for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59214/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...is doing and the co-operation in all the work she is doing in the Department. I and many others greatly appreciate it. I wish to raise several issues. One is the disregard of the half-rate carer's allowance. This is an important aspect. It must be acknowledged that this was an issue in respect of the fuel allowance. Turning to the issue of the CE schemes, and the brief mention of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county who will receive a €500 carer’s support grant in November 2022, in tabular form. [56754/22]