Results 1-20 of 185 for carers speaker:Denis Naughten

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: By moving this motion, we want to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of half a million carers around this country and give them some small recognition for the valuable work that they are doing by replacing the current system with a non-means-tested scheme for the carer's allowance focusing solely on care needs. Yesterday, I had a conversation with the mother of a child called Willow....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 814 of 9 April 2024, the corresponding number of recipients of carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18233/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 814 of 9 April 2024, if she will provide a breakdown of the numbers and primary payments received by recipients of the half-rate carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18235/24]

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...minimum. This particularly impacts women on maternity leave, those on paternity leave and those who take leave due to other caring responsibilities. The Minister has a good record with respect to the support she has provided to family carers through the development of parental and caring leave. Yet, the legislation before us creates a barrier to that because of the way it is structured....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...of carer’s allowance; the number in receipt of the half-rate carer’s allowance; the number of recipients of the carer’s support grant; the steps which she is taking to ensure that all full-time carers avail of the carer’s support grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15481/24]

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...accurate diagnosis is fraught with challenges. The lack of specific knowledge and expertise often leads to significant delays in receiving proper treatment, placing a heavy burden on families and carers. The anguish of being ill without diagnosis or witnessing a child suffering without recognition is profound. Thus, securing an accurate and swift diagnosis is of critical importance. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...diagnosis is fraught with challenges. The lack of specific knowledge and expertise often leads to significant delays in receiving proper treatment, thereby placing a heavy burden on families and carers. Many rare diseases emerge early in life with a staggering 30% of the children affected passing away before their fifth birthday although many cases are not identified until much later. ...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: If no one else wishes to come in on the working-age employment supports, we will move on to the next section, which deals with blindness, disability and carers. Are there any questions on those schemes? No. The next section concerns children. Are there any questions?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...and outside the European Union in the United Kingdom as well, which adds to the complexity of the calculation. Last week, the Minister signed a statutory instrument relating to the long-term carers credit which, again, will add to the complexity of that. We want to acknowledge the Minister's work in extending those credits to long-term carers. However, we are trying to get an indication...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to a submission from Family Carers Ireland on the introduction of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53878/23]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...their daily lives and their ability to work. Some of them are only working on a part-time basis. We need to address this issue. I welcome the changes the Minister has introduced for family carer's pensions. I acknowledge the work the Minister has done in that regard. Not only will the changes apply to those who will be of pensionable age after 1 January next but they will also apply...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: Approximately one in 12 people in Ireland will at some stage in life be affected by a rare disease. When family members, many of whom are carers, are included, this means approximately 825,000 Irish people are impacted by a rare disease. The Taoiseach will recall that the programme for Government published in 2020 contained a commitment to deliver a revised national rare disease plan to...

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

Denis Naughten: ..., let us say, and where the trend is going in that regard would give us some indication of what is happening and how successful our policy is. Another consistent issue for the committee is the carer's support grant. There is a feeling, rightly or wrongly, and I know from personal experience but it is only anecdotal evidence, that we are still seeing full-time carers still not drawing...

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

Denis Naughten: ...any person or entity outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. On 18 May 2022, we heard evidence at this committee from three family carers, namely, Ms Anna Budayova, Ms Niamh Ryan and Mr. Damien Douglas, on their day-to-day challenges. We heard powerful evidence from Anna, Niamh and Damien on providing full-time care to their...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...welfare rates. If we look at the incomes before the war in Ukraine and compare that to the incomes next year, even taking social welfare increases into account, pensioners will be €15 a week worse off, carers will be €12 a week worse off and disabled people will be €9.60 a week worse off. These are the people meeting higher than average energy, electricity and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...are or, at some stage in their lives, will be affected by such a condition. This means that approximately 825,000 Irish people are impacted by a rare disease when family members, many of whom are carers, are included. The west and north west of Ireland has one of the highest incident rates of rare disease in Europe. While most rare diseases appear early in life, with sadly about 30%...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...our colleague, Deputy Ó Cuív, was Minister for Social Protection, people will remember that children with autism could not get access to domiciliary care allowance and parents could not get the carer's allowance because of the way the assessment was structured. Deputy Ó Cuív, as Minister, reformed that assessment so that it could make specific provision and include the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...over a ten-year period when calculating the rate of State pension, which was recommended by the pension commission; the introduction of a contributory State pension provision for long-term carers of more than 20 years, for the very first time; a commitment to explore a new scheme to support people who cannot continue to work in their early 60s and; the long-term sustainability of the State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...register will apply because I believe that this covers the issue which Deputy Ó Cuív is talking about which is people who do not fit into the criteria of the definitions which are there at the moment for carer's allowance, carer's benefit, carer's support grant and the domiciliary care allowance? This new register which Mr. Duggan has been talking about is a safety net, so can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...that and that is our responsibility to ensure that happens when the legislation comes in. Mr. Duggan is explaining how this will apply, which is as it applies at present, with regard to the home carer credit, which, personally, I have not had an issue with as regards to this cohort, where Senator Murphy would have had similar cases of people, where the home caring credit was for an adult...