Results 1-20 of 30 for carers speaker:Kieran O'Donnell

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Deputy. Carers do great work and the people for whom they care are hugely important. The Deputy has raised the issue in her constituency of Clare. We welcome the submission from Family Carers Ireland. It is something we will take into account in our scoping and review exercises. We want to ensure we bring about consistency in the schemes. I take on board the points the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Parking Provision (13 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and I are fully aware of the distress associated with the complex and everyday challenges faced by people with dementia and their families and carers. The Minister fully appreciates that a dementia diagnosis requires a fundamental renegotiation of how individuals engage with the world around them and acknowledges that driving and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Senator for raising this important issue. She mentioned carers, who provide phenomenal work for society and, more particularly, for their families and loved ones. I will give some background. I am going to read from the conclusion of my notes and work backwards. As the Senator has highlighted, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, has asked her officials to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Jul 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...means tests on an ongoing basis. Over the last three budgets, changes have been introduced to the means test for the fuel allowance, disability allowance, working family payment, farm assist, carer's allowance, blind pension and the one-parent family payment. Budget 2022 provided for an increase to €50,000 in the disregard under the carer's allowance scheme. The weekly income...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50988/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when carers will benefit from the changes to the carer’s allowance which are part of Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5486/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of and the position regarding the changes to the carer’s allowance and the domiciliary care allowance announced in budget 2022. [57830/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the changes. Many of the questions I had intended to ask have already been answered by the Minister. We deal with carers as a group a great deal and they do phenomenal work, much of it hidden. I would love to see empirical work done on what they are saving the State in terms of healthcare. I do not know if that is being done, but it should be done. I welcome the increase in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 757. To ask the Minister for Health the position of carers (details supplied) on the vaccination allocation sequencing under the national Covid-19 vaccination programme; if they fall under group 2, 4, 6 or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3947/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit (6 Oct 2020)

Kieran O'Donnell: 518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 22 September 2020, if a review of the carer’s benefit application will be carried out in view of information provided (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28365/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit (22 Sep 2020)

Kieran O'Donnell: 519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carers benefit application will be reviewed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24978/20]

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (26 Jun 2019)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...I do not believe someone on €680 a week should be paying a marginal tax rate of 50%.I do not believe so. Equally, we have to look after people who are less well off, including social welfare and carer's recipients. This is the balance to be struck by Government. We also have to put money aside. Senator Horkan mentioned the rainy day fund, which we debated recently in the Seanad....

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Statements (3 Oct 2017)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...has made. If people want to remain in their homes, everything possible should be done to ensure they can remain in their homes. When we look at the home care scheme itself, we must factor in the carers, what they do and what they bring to the table. In many cases the work of carers it is very emotionally draining. They are looking after family members. In many cases the work goes on...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2017)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...the Department of Social Protection, officials of which were before the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport yesterday, for empirical data for the numbers of travel passes used by OAPs, people who have carers and companion passes and others. The National Transport Authority does not request data from Bus Éireann for the numbers who use free travel passes on non-PSO routes....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have limited time and the Chairman has been indulgent. It is impossible to assess the provision of public transport properly without empirical evidence on the use of the free travel pass. What is the breakdown, how often are these passes used, what routes are they used on and how many holders are OAPs or on disability or carer’s allowance or companion passes? The figure of 700,000...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...xe9;idigh spoke about how this Chamber is very diverse in terms of Members' array of talents. Seanad reform is key but the items the House deals with are more fundamental than that. This week is national carers' week. Senator Kelleher spoke about people being cared for in their homes. We need to look at the fair deal scheme and see how it can be adapted in terms of a home setting....

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...appears to have been nothing more than settlement for a former CEO. Was the moral dilemma of Mr. Kiely imposing FEMPI cuts on the rest of the staff discussed? These affected ordinary people such as nurses, carers and attendants.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome amendment No. 39 and the provision which allows the tax credit to be transferred from one carer to the other, with agreement. However, in terms of practicalities, there are situations, unfortunately, where the mother and father do not get on. If the primary carer is not paying tax or cannot effectively use the tax credit in a tax year, a practical option might be to provide that...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will bring this back to practicalities and we are dealing with section 3. With regard to carer's allowance and payments to blind persons, the disabled and widows, what is the logic behind the cuts? In my dealings with the Minister I have always found him to be a fair and decent man but these actions are illogical. Deputy Ring made reference to the carers earlier, and we all deal with...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Apart from the Minister, not a single Fianna Fáil Deputy is in the Chamber. They promised the Carer's Association and disability groups that there would not be a cut in their payments. In my own constituency of Limerick East, I know the work carers do. The Government is taking €8 per week from their allowance. This is the equivalent of €35 per month or more than €400 per year....