Results 1-20 of 45 for carers speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...an illness called functional neurological disorder, FND. She has limb paralysis in both legs and in her left arm. She suffers from extreme pain and seizures. She has been turned down for home carer hours by the HSE on two grounds. The first is that, at 28, she has not reached the age of 65 and is therefore not eligible. The second ground is that her illness is not recognised. The HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 587. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop and deliver a ‘carers guarantee’ proposal that will provide a core basket of services to carers across the country, regardless of where they live, across each of the CHO areas, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (16 Nov 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to respond to concerns raised in respect of the carers allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50405/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (3 Oct 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: The applicants fall into three different categories. The first is priority one, where the applicant is terminally ill, needs a full-time family carer or where adaptation of facilities will allow discharge from hospital. Most of the applications I deal with are priority two, where people are mobile but need assistance in accessing washing and toilet facilities and bedrooms, and where,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Sep 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to respond to concerns raised (details supplied) in respect of a foster carer’s difficulties in accessing certain social protection supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41394/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Jul 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 344. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop and deliver a carers guarantee proposal that will provide a core basket of services to carers across the country, regardless of where they live, across each of the CHO areas since the establishment of the current Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33318/23]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...last week, the additional €400 for fuel allowance recipients, the additional €200 for recipients of the living alone allowance and the additional €500 in the working family payment and payments for carers and people with disabilities. This money is going a long way to help people face the serious crisis we are all in arising from the energy crisis. They are all...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the announcement made to support carers in Budget 2023; if she will also provide an update on plans to allow carers to qualify for contributions for State pensions for the first time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49596/22]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...homes. Home care is the direction in which this society is moving. I met representatives from Home Instead recently. They informed me about something like 6,000 vacancies nationally for home carers, which is a huge number. We saw the controversy about the Ukrainians and the asylum seekers in Killarney. I agree with the Government opting to reverse the decision to move those mothers...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...However, we are still not doing enough. My office is in contact with the HSE every day trying to get care for people who cannot get it. It is not that the money is not there; it is that the work carers do is not valued or paid enough. It should be a rewarding career. I have no problem with privatisation of lots of things, but this sector is being privatised. I know from my experience...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Older people are being encouraged to stay in their homes as long as they can, especially as they age and get sick. The demand for home carers has never been greater and neither has the funding. However, the fact is every week we find people who have been assessed as needing home care for whom there is no carer available. At the end of March over 5,458 people nationally had been assessed as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...not doing enough. We must tackle it. We must make it a career. It was a career in the health service; it was respected and was acknowledged as a very important one. We need to recruit full-time carers into the HSE, pay them and give them a career. The people want them and need them. It keeps them out of inappropriate care and out of acute hospitals. As I said, 90 such people were in...

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

Fergus O'Dowd: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has provided funding to help carers in accessing education and employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5022/22]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...to tangible improvements, especially for families who are caring for very sick children in acute and long-term care for a significant period of time. Up to now, you would get your three months' carer's allowance but this would be cut after three months, and your three months' domiciliary allowance would also disappear. These are parents or guardians of children who are very ill, in acute...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will respond to concerns raised by a person (details attached) about possible additional funding grants for carers during Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11128/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (3 Dec 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who will benefit from the carer’s support grant in 2021; if this payment was increased in budget 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39718/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if a response to correspondence regarding single person child carer credit, SPCCC, will issue (details supplied). [13858/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) in respect of the additional and complex requirements that have been added to the responsibility of carers since the Covid-19 restrictions; the additional resources being put in place for persons in a similar situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6139/20]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...determine what care he or she will receive. It is geographical and people in County Meath are being treated unfairly. I am particularly supportive of Sage Advocacy, ALONE, Sean Moynihan and all carers throughout the country. A commitment was given in the past to statutory homecare provision which I welcomed, but I did not see it mentioned in the Budget Statement. I have no doubt that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (11 Jun 2019)

Fergus O'Dowd: 862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the perceived unjust system under which carers do not receive qualifying stamps in order to qualify for contributory pensions in view of the significant saving they make for the State in terms of care cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23196/19]