Results 1-20 of 101 for carers speaker:Seán Sherlock

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

Seán Sherlock: ...with responsibility for business, employment and retail. The issue of demographics is writ large across the issue being discussed. It will have a massive long-term, knock-on effect on how carers are supported. It will have a knock-on effect in the workplace, because as we face into increased rates of chronic disease such as Alzheimer's and dementia, workers will need to be part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why the free travel pass is only assigned to those in receipt of the carers allowance and cannot be assigned to both the recipient of the carers allowance and the other parent/guardian, where the second parent/guardian can prove they contribute to the care of the child whose care needs gives rise to the eligibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider expanding the names assigned to a free travel pass, where a person qualifies for carers allowance, in order to be able to share the caring responsibilities with other family members; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15644/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...payments of child benefit, she will work with her counterpart, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and consider fast tracking the proposed payment to foster carers. [8074/24]

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...as a society. That opportunity has been missed. The Labour Party amendment and similar amendments before us seek to push out the envelope to reflect the fact that there are now more than 299,000 carers in this country who could benefit from the wording proposed in those amendments. Just as we had much discussion on the definition of "durable relationships", I suspect we will come back...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...their care at home or in school, or for people with disabilities or older people seeking to live independent lives. The recognition of family care alone is not sufficient to strengthen the rights of carers and to ensure substantive improvements in law and policy i.e. measures which would improve the lives of carers. In fact, it could be seen as a constitutional endorsement of thestatus...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will undertake to bring forward the second increase in the foster carer's allowance under budget 2024 in line with other payments ahead of November 2025. [55774/23]

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

Seán Sherlock: ...outcome for everybody involved. I would like to continue the theme started by my colleague about communications. I want to raise a very specific case where somebody was in receipt of a carer's allowance on behalf of her son who has profound intellectual disabilities. This is a case I have raised with the Minister previously. I will keep going on this particular case for as long as I...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...being cared for contacted him to say there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of hours they are receiving. In this retention and recruitment crisis, the question arises of why, if those carers wanted to continue in employment under the HSE, they could not continue to give the care to those families they are providing at present. There is a very arbitrary retirement age and that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (7 Nov 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 44. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reasons the rise in the allowance for foster carers, as outlined in budget 2024, has been delayed to November 2024, after the next scheduled budget announcement, and if he will work to bring that rise forward to earlier in the year. [48533/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 1074. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will bring forward from November 2024 to January 2024, the proposed rise in foster carer allowance announced in Budget 2024. [46387/23]

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

Seán Sherlock: ...package would have targeted money where it is needed most. It would have provided for a bonus in October and at Christmas for those who need it most this year, and not in January. It would have increased pensions, carer's allowance and other payments by €15 per month. It would have provided €9 monthly public transport across all modes and would have given renters a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (17 Oct 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay for the rise in payments to foster carers under Budget 2024 to end 2024; and if he will bring it forward to alleviate pressures on foster carers. [45216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Home Care Packages (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what engagement she has had with the Minister for Health on homecare packages and the financial impact of those families in receipt of carers' payment who do not receive homecare support. [32066/23]

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...presents all of us with a clear challenge with regard to what care for older people will look like today and in the future. We have to continue to engage with organisations like, for instance, Family Carers Ireland. We have to engage with reports that they issue because they are at the coalface now and are in tune with the challenges that face older people. I refer to the State of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have benefitted from the carer support grant for 2022 and to date in 2023. [27393/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 814. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many people have benefited from the carer support grant for the years 2016 to 2022 in each year and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [27749/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 53. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine additional payments for foster carers in order to recruit more foster carers into the system. [15715/23]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...x20ac;325 for a child aged under 12 and €352 for a child aged over 12. The Irish Examinercarried an article in response to that on Saturday, 8 October 2021, by Noel Baker. When he spoke to a foster carer following budget 2022, that person described those receiving the payment as a bit of "a soft touch". This person, who spoke anonymously, also said: "We're like the guards - we...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...provide a good deal of confidence for people within the sector. It might act as - I will not say a financial incentive for people to become involved - a deciding factor if prospective foster carers knew that there is an allowance that would not see them out of pocket. That might make it more attractive for them.