Results 1-20 of 79 for carers speaker:Eamon Ryan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...The eligibility payments are for those in receipt of fuel allowance, jobseeker's allowance for more than six months, working family payment, one-parent family payment, domiciliary care allowance, carer's allowance where the recipient is living with the person they are caring for, and disability allowance for more than six months, or where they have a child under seven years of age. That...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...continued to support energy consumers to stay warm and well. Most recently, budget 2024 introduced a total €2.2 billion suite of once-off cost-of-living measures to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. This included a new electricity cost emergency benefit scheme through which €412.83, exclusive of VAT, is being credited to each domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (29 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Budget 2024 introduced a total €2.2 billion suite of once-off Cost of Living supports, to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. The Budget package includes a new Electricity Cost Emergency Benefit Scheme through which €412.83 (exclusive of VAT) will be credited to each domestic electricity account in three payments of €137.61 (exclusive of VAT)...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...last Thursday shocked us all. I cannot recall a moment in Dublin that was so shocking. Obviously, our first thought is for the three young children who were attacked and the heroism of their carer and passers-by in a range of different roles. We must think first and foremost about the child, the carer and their families. At this moment I pray for them to have a full recovery. The...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...to the actions the Government has taken to support people, particularly with the cost of energy, budget 2024 introduced a €2.2 billion suite of once-off cost-of-living supports to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. This includes three electricity cost emergency benefit payments, paid to 2.237 million domestic electricity accounts; a lump sum of...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...2022, and an additional package of one-off measures worth €2.5 billion was introduced in budget 2023. In February, the Government announced a €1.2 billion package to help families, businesses, pensioners, carers, and people with disabilities. There is a simplified application process for the temporary business energy support scheme, and the level of relief has been...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...introduced a range of once-off social protection measures, including additional lump sum payments for recipients of Fuel Allowance, the Living Alone Increase, the Working Family payment, and the Carer's Support grant, as well as further support to those in receipt of long-term disability payments. One particular cohort which includes traveller households who use Local Authority...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Homes Scheme per qualifying social welfare scheme for applications received in Quarter 1 2023 are set out below. Qualifying Payment Share of Applications in Q1 2023 Carers Allowance, and live with person you are caring for 9% Disability Allowance for more than 6 months, and child under 7 <1% ...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...last year and an additional package of one-off measures worth €2.5 billion in budget 2023. In February of this year, we announced a further €1.2 billion package to help families, businesses, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities to cope with the rising cost of living. Through the first and the second electricity costs emergency benefit schemes, over 2.1 million...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (9 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...payments to fuel Allowance recipients, and persons on the working family payment. More recently, in February of this year, Government announced a €1.2 billion package to help families, businesses, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. CRU provides a dedicated email address for Oireachtas members, which enables them to raise questions on general energy regulatory matters...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Better Energy Warmer Homes Scheme delivers free energy upgrades for eligible homeowners in low-income households who are most at risk of energy poverty. A record budget of €148.5 million has been allocated to the scheme for 2023. The average cost per home completed in the last three months of 2022 was €21,376. The eligibility criteria for the Warmer Homes Scheme are mainly...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (14 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Increase - €500 cost of living lump sum payment to all families getting Working Family Payment - double payment of Child Benefit to support all families with children - €500 cost of living payment for people receiving Carer's Support Grant will be paid in November - €500 lump sum cost of living disability support grant will be paid to all people receiving a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I refer to the reply to Question No 142 of 20 September 2022. : My Department has engaged with relevant stakeholders, including representative organisations such as Family Carer’s Ireland, Age Action, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, the Irish Wheelchair Association, Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland and public bodies such as the National...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Increase - €500 cost of living lump sum payment to all families getting Working Family Payment - double payment of Child Benefit to support all families with children - €500 cost of living payment for people receiving Carer's Support Grant will be paid in November - €500 lump sum cost of living disability support grant will be paid to all people receiving a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (24 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Alone Increase- €500 cost of living lump sum payment to all families getting Working Family Payment- double payment of Child Benefit to support families with children- €500 cost of living payment for people receiving Carer's Support Grant - €500 lump sum cost of living disability support grant will be paid to all people receiving a long term disability payment ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Living Alone Increase- €500 cost of living lump sum payment to all families getting Working Family Payment- double payment of Child Benefit to support all families with children- €500 cost of living payment for people receiving Carer's Support Grant will be paid in November- €500 lump sum cost of living disability support grant will be paid to all people receiving a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I refer to the reply to Question No. 142 of 20th September 2022.The position is unchanged. My Department has engaged with relevant stakeholders, including representative organisations such as Family Carer’s Ireland, Age Action, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, the Irish Wheelchair Association, Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland and public...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (18 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Increase - €500 cost of living lump sum payment to all families getting Working Family Payment - double payment of Child Benefit to support all families with children - €500 cost of living payment for people receiving Carer's Support Grant will be paid in November - Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme (TBESS), which will provide up to €10,000 per business per...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...Alone Increase - €500 cost of living lump sum payment to all families getting Working Family Payment - double payment of Child Benefit to support all families with children - €500 cost of living payment for people receiving Carer's Support Grant will be paid in November - €500 lump sum cost of living disability support grant will be paid to all people receiving a long...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (14 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...getting the Living Alone Increase - €500 cost of living lump sum payment to all families getting Working Family Payment - Double payment of Child Benefit to support all families with children - €500 cost of living payment for people receiving Carer's Support Grant will be paid in November - €500 lump sum cost of living disability support grant will be paid to all...