Results 1-20 of 160 for carers speaker:Róisín Shortall

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...start addressing these systemic failures in our social care services, rights-based care will remain purely notional and far removed from the experience of those receiving care. Earlier today, we heard the testimony of three family carers at an event organised by Family Carers Ireland. It would bring tears to your eyes. That we deny our citizens with disabilities the most basic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the HSE recruitment freeze on recommendations one, three, four and 12 of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants, respectively, given that each of these recommendations relates to recruitment and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51572/23]

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...workforce advisory group. What happens now to the four recommendations that relate directly to recruitment and training? Will they be put on ice at a time when almost 6,000 people have been approved for home care but when there are no carers available? What now for regional health areas? Many of us were starting to believe that the Government was serious about restructuring the HSE,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (16 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...to Parliamentary Question No. 1924 of 11 September 2023, the date at which an implementation plan for the 16 recommendations from the report of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home healthcare assistants will be published; the reason for the delay; the status of all 16 recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50516/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. Watt for an update on funding of the carer’s guarantee for family carers to eliminate the postcode lottery that currently exists and take pressure off carers. What is the status of the funding of that guarantee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister referred to a guarantee for carers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No, it is for family carers.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...carer’s allowance means test was reviewed; if the means limits were increased under this review; if she will outline the basis as to the appropriate level of savings, in particular in cases where carers try and save a small amount each week for their future needs, but find that such savings are then assessed as means; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31548/23]

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

Róisín Shortall: ...deliver high-quality, person-centred care in the absence of adequate pay, terms and conditions, and opportunities for career development. While significant progress has been made on pay and conditions for carers working directly for the HSE, staff within the private sector, who provide more than 60% of HSE-funded home care, still face serious challenges and disincentives. These workers...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (11 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...the new HSE Home Support Tender 2023; if additional funding has been requested from his Department to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants; if additional funding will be provided to the Department of Health to implement a new home care tender ahead of the current arrangement ending in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (11 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...there are 6,500 older people on waiting lists for home care. They have been approved for it, and it is difficult enough to get approval for it, but they are on a waiting list because there are no carers available. Equally, there are many people in hospital who are ready to be discharged but they are waiting for home care and the staff are not available. This is largely due to poor terms...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...tender process was withdrawn; the reason this offer was so far below the price per hour required to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 1411. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation ten from the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants; the engagements he has had with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on this matter, in view of the proposal to establish a NFQ level 5 healthcare assistant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...is due to expire on 30 April 2023; when he expects this new tender to be agreed; if this new tender will include recommendations for the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants, in particular recommendation six which states that home care workers should, at a minimum, receive the national living wage; and if he will make a...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...dealt with the scourge of low pay, or narrowed the gap between core social welfare rates and the soaring cost of living. Instead, it opted to leave low-paid workers, households reliant on social welfare payments, pensioners, lone parents and carers living below the poverty line. If we talk about fairness and inequality, it has to mean something. This Government must approach and provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation eight of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10505/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...welfare rates have fallen way behind the surging cost-of-living increases across the economy. The Government has decided to leave these families who are reliant on these payments - pensioners, lone parents and carers - living below the poverty line. It has not even extended the fuel allowance to low-paid workers on the working family payment. In fact, it has done nothing to help...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...recommendations of the Minister of State's report implemented in full? A key part of that is to implement the recommendation on the living wage. That is how we get more people to sign up to be carers. According to a number of people who have examined this area in detail from an academic point of view, it also would help greatly to attract more male carers to come into the system. We...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 1682. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to implement all 16 recommendations of the workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home health care assistants in 2023; if he will provide a timeline for the implementation of each recommendation; the progress that has been made to date in implementing these recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2181/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (29 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that foster parents and carers are not entitled to the State pension if she is giving consideration to addressing this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58871/22]