Results 1-20 of 38 for carers speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...even a nod of constitutional respect to all of those aspects of male and female parenting that cannot be characterised by the term "care". We then have a slap in the face to so many other kinds of carers because the only care to be given even a watery constitutional recognition is that element of care that takes place within the family relationships. To be clear, there ought to be a...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...; teaghlaigh, de dheasca uireasa, dul le saothar lasmuigh den teaghlach agus beidh ar an Stát tacú lena ndualgais chúraim.”, I move amendment No. 3: In Part 2, page 6, to delete lines 12 to 14 and substitute the following: “In particular, the State recognises that women and family carers who provide care in the home give to the State a support without...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...Connolly said is worthy of note in that regard because it applies here too. This is not about delivering meaningful, enforceable rights and stronger constitutional protection for women, families and carers, as well as other groups who experience discrimination and disadvantage, such as people with disabilities; this is about focusing on symbolic recognition alone. The Government is very...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...politics from the Government. It holds out to people the prospect of getting rid of, apparently, a sexist reference to women only in the context of home duties. It holds out the prospect of giving long overdue recognition to carer but what did it do? It proposes to give us a watery clause on care that means nothing and to get rid of any reference to mothers and the privileging of their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...but I disagree to an extent. The worst thing to happen in our country for a long time happened last Thursday morning with the stabbing of innocent people, including three young children and their carer. Our thoughts and prayers must remain, in particular, with the five-year-old child who remains in a critical condition and with her family. That was, by a mile, the worst thing that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Apr 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...and terror on the innocent. I commend Sister Bernadette MacMahon - Dr. MacMahon indeed - of the Sisters of Charity and her associates from the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice and Family Carers Ireland on their report, Care and Home - Costs of Care Arising from Disability, which was presented to Deputies and Senators on Tuesday at an event organised by Deputy Marian Harkin. We...

Seanad: Carer's Allowance: Motion (10 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...said that due to the stress of caring for their sons on a 24-7 basis, and the need to keep their eyes and ears on their sons all of the time, they do not really have a relationship anymore. They are just two carers who happen to live under the one roof. It was a very sad and poignant observation. It probably saddened many people who were watching. Notwithstanding the sheer and obvious...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Feb 2021)

Rónán Mullen: .... I think of my own parents at home. There are many people living as individuals or couples who are elderly, for most of whom vaccination will happen through their GPs. In addition to the carer-led setting the Minister of State referred to, there are quite a few religious houses in the country where everybody is elderly. There might be one 65-year-old living with three or four others...

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (26 Jan 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...healthcare conditions, but even if there are not, and where there are a sufficiently large number of people gathered, it would make sense to vaccinate early. That is especially the case if there are carers coming in from an organisation or individual carers moving from one setting to another. I am really anxious that attention be given to this. I know they have written the letters, but...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages (19 Jun 2019)

Rónán Mullen: .... One should be integrated into the other. I hope the new guidelines will make this point clearly and allow for something real and tangible in what the Minister of State described as the carer's break in order that carers will be able to take a break in such circumstances.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...the Minister of State. This is welcome legislation. The extension of the GP visit card to these categories of people is a welcome development, and the Minister of State has spoken clearly about the importance of carers to us as a community. I speak from personal experience, like many others here. I live with a person who is being cared for by my mother. Everything the Minister of...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2017)

Rónán Mullen: On the issue of carers, thousands of people are in need of care and thousands of people are giving care that sometimes is the subject of a carer's allowance but many more are giving unpaid care. Very often, they are the hidden heroes in our country. We have heard the figure of 195,000 people giving care but at a recent health committee meeting, I asked our health officials, recognising that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome our guests. It is estimated that 195,000 carers provide a minimum of 6.6 hours of care per week. I think that was the metric cited. Does that include people who are receiving the full or partial carer's allowance? Is that how the statistic is measured? What is the number of people cared for? I presume that in some cases more than one person is being cared for in a particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The Chair rightly made the distinction that I did not make clear when I put the question between those who receive carer's allowance and those who do not. There is a figure of 195,000 carers providing 6.6 million hours of care, an average of 38 hours per carer. Some are getting some kind of carer's allowance and many are not because they fall below the threshold due to their existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Of those 195,000 carers, how many would get some kind of allowance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...being given care by the same person and, of course, there are people living alone who are receiving home help services to a greater or lesser degree from outside. Within that figure of 195,000 carers there are informal carers and those receiving some class of care allowance. I said earlier that money is not the primary lens through which this issue should be viewed, but the witnesses...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...the EU fuzz and start talking and acting in a global way in order to support particular persecuted minorities. The Alzheimer Society of Ireland has welcomed the restoration of the vital respite carer's grant, which is a lifeline to the 50,000 people who provide round-the-clock care to people with dementia. Many of us have loved ones who are benefiting from that grant. But the society...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...home in Galway recently, I encountered a person who is caring for somebody with Alzheimer's. When the discussion about extra care came up, the helpful local health board representative asked the carer "Would you consider putting him into respite for a week?" The carer found this very upsetting because the person in question would not be fit for that and would find it extremely...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...rather than positive mental health outcomes. It would therefore seem entirely appropriate that, in the context of a caring protective engagement between any woman and her medical expert, guide and carer, the possibility of negative mental health outcomes associated with abortion would be canvassed in truth - that is called informed consent. If in that context and in an appropriate way...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Rónán Mullen: ...make progress on that issue. There is much talk about equality. While equality is good, our understanding of it can often be overly simplistic. Aiken Promotions is no longer facilitating a free carer's ticket for people who attend one of their events with a person with a disability. This practice used to go on, rightly so, and other concert and event promoters facilitate a person caring...