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

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has plans to make the home carer's tax credit available to carers who have left the workforce to provide care and attention to seriously ill relatives in cases in which a carer's income exceeds €6,500 in the year in which the home carer's tax is claimable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23779/05]

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...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (30 Jun 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has plans to make the home carer's tax credit available to those who have left the workforce to provide care and attention to seriously ill relatives and who are in receipt of carer's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23776/05]

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]

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 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]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on linking the rate of carer's benefit payable to a percentage of former salary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37634/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Mar 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13268/10]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (24 Nov 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will re-examine an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41410/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (26 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding delays under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12397/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (5 Jul 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will intervene in the case of a person (detail supplied) who has had a carer's allowance withdrawn. [31637/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (17 Apr 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 928. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to extend the general practitioner visit card scheme to persons in receipt of carer's allowance as announced in December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16162/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Public Liability Insurance (25 Sep 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: 434. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding public liability insurance for foster carers; the progress made on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38671/18]

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: 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 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: 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]

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 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]

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...