Results 1-20 of 29 for carers speaker:Martin Heydon

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (10 Mar 2022)

Martin Heydon: I thank Deputy Martin Browne. All Deputies deal with carers in our constituency offices and in the course of our daily work as parliamentarians, and we are in awe of the fantastic work they do. That is why the State provides supports for people on fixed incomes who are providing such a vital service to a loved one. The State recognises that this service is of huge value. I accept there...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (10 Mar 2022)

Martin Heydon: ...for more than 484,000 customers and their households. The package is available as a supplementary allowance to those in receipt of various social welfare payments, including but not limited to the carer's allowance, the State contributory and non-contributory pensions, and the widow, widower's or surviving civil partner's contributory pension. The electricity allowance is paid to all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Martin Heydon: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the guidance and provisions in place to assist family carers that have concerns regarding guidance on Covid-19 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7027/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Expenditure (13 May 2020)

Martin Heydon: 1118. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to review the rates paid to foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4968/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Martin Heydon: As the Taoiseach will be aware, dementia advisers work not only with people with dementia but with their families and carers to provide a highly responsive and individualised information and signposting service. Kildare is one of the counties that does not have the services of a dementia adviser. I have worked and engaged with the Kildare branch of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, as has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Oct 2019)

Martin Heydon: 308. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the general practitioner visit card to include carers that are in receipt of the carer's support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39972/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (1 Oct 2019)

Martin Heydon: 622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the hours a carer can work per week from 15 to 18.5 hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39971/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (17 Sep 2019)

Martin Heydon: 624. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer's benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37065/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (11 Jul 2019)

Martin Heydon: 536. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for additional supports and services for those living with dementia and their carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30817/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Heydon: 794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer's benefit by a person (details supplied) County Kildare will be expedited in view of the circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29633/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (9 Apr 2019)

Martin Heydon: 600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a means review of a carer's allowance payment will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16534/19]

Other Questions: Foster Care Supports (28 Nov 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...with ultimate responsibility for foster parents, I look forward to teasing out the matter with her in the future with a view to championing the cause of foster parents in this regard. While foster carers qualify for homemaker's credits until their foster children are 12, thereafter they are deemed to be not working and are being told they must get a part-time job. They are expected to do...

Other Questions: Foster Care Supports (28 Nov 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...and funding paid to foster parents who carry out a very important role, given the increased funding of €40 million for Tusla in budget 2018. I am sure the Minister will agree that foster carers are a vital resource in the care system, in looking after almost 92% of the total number of children in care. At the end of July there were 5,801 children in foster care. I point to the...

Other Questions: Foster Care Supports (28 Nov 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...foster parents who have been fostering for many years and do not remember a change in the rates, my sense is that they have not been reviewed for a very long time. The Minister has outlined foster carers' responsibilities and what the money is for: clothes, food, accommodation, classes and education. She has said it does not act as a payment in any way for foster parents. However, we...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (4 Jul 2017)

Martin Heydon: 572. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a carer's allowance appeal can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31021/17]

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Martin Heydon: ..., as others would have one believe. The main measures in this Bill include the increases in social welfare payments by €5, which will see a gain for approximately 1.5 million recipients, from carers, the disabled and jobseekers to pensioners, widows, the blind and those on maternity leave. There are 8,000 recipients benefitting under the farm assist scheme. There are measures...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (27 Oct 2016)

Martin Heydon: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider extending the tenant purchase scheme to cover persons in receipt of carer's allowance or disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32382/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Martin Heydon: ...to speak. However, the structure is as important as the significant 15% increase in investment for that sector. In the social welfare element, there is a €5 increase for those on the old age pension, carers, those with a disabilities, widows, blind persons, lone parents, jobseekers, those in receipt of on maternity and paternity benefit and people on community employment schemes....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (4 May 2016)

Martin Heydon: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9053/16]

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

Martin Heydon: 63. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8307/16]