Results 1-20 of 36 for carers speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the widespread shock and dismay amongst parents and carers, caused by the changes to the allocation of the special education teaching hours; and if she will urgently review this decision. [7622/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person is in receipt of carer's allowance and works part-time and is paid monthly, how her Department determines a person's weekly hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55309/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (21 Jun 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...see that. They are intelligent and see that. I am sure the Minister of State will agree that this is wrong. There will be schools across the country with tremendous people who are nurturers, educators and carers, providing wonderful environments for these kids who are coming from all sorts of situations. The lives of those kids have been turned upside down and they have experienced...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Jun 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who were refused the domiciliary carers allowance annually in each county since 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33420/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Jun 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number who were awarded the domiciliary carers allowance on appeal annually in each county since 2017 to date in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33421/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is flexibility around carer’s allowance means testing for couples who are partners, considering they cannot avail of tax breaks in the same way as married couples. [23353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1041. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that carers in receipt of carer’s benefit or carer’s allowance are not also entitled to any illness or sickness benefit like other workers, if they are off work from their part-time work due to illness or sickness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20248/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Dec 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in Buncrana, County Donegal; the criteria for this prioritisation; the person or body that decides the priority list; and the location in which it is published in order that service users and carers can read and understand the prioritisation of the service user. [61350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (16 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person caring for two persons can claim a higher level of carer’s allowance than a person caring for one person; and if not, the reason. [11196/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am sharing time with Deputies Browne and Tully. We will take five minutes each. I will raise two issues with the Minister. The first is the issue of carers, which has previously been mentioned. They are obviously a vital group in our society but they have not got the appreciation they deserve over the past three months. They have taken on incredible responsibility and been under...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (27 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in existence for almost 20 years. Until a year ago, they were entirely self-funded. This has been a long road for families. Family members who are dealing with the significant stress of being carers for their loved ones have to go out and raise money again and again. The local communities in north and south Donegal are supportive of these organisations. They always give great support...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Foundation needs €150,000 per annum - this has been costed by the HSE - just to keep basic services going. iCARE needs €100,000 per annum. What has been happening is that the parents, who are already carers and under ferocious pressure, must hold fundraiser after fundraiser and they are totally exhausted. They are dead on their feet. They were about to close the doors of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Feb 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I acknowledge the Minister of State's long campaign for families with loved ones with disabilities and for persons with disabilities. He has personal knowledge of being a carer so he will understand more than most just how frustrating the situation has been. I will again tell the story of iCare, which I know so well because it is based in my home town of Buncrana. It has been in operation...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Nov 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...but further afield. For all of these 18 years it has kept the door open by relentless fundraising and has had tremendous support from the wider community. We are speaking about parents and carers who are tired and weary and who have been taken for granted for far too long by the State. The HSE refers families and young people with intellectual disabilities to iCARE but until this year,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (13 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a carer’s allowance and a domiciliary carer’s allowance will be taken into consideration for the purpose of calculating a sponsor’s income for an application for a visa pursuant to the policy document on non-European economic area family reunification. [46641/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (17 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 373. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a carer's allowance and a domiciliary carer's allowance will be taken into consideration for the purposes of calculating a sponsor's income for an application for a visa pursuant to the policy document on non-European Economic Area family reunification. [46376/15]

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...x20ac;83 million in 2013. There were cuts to lone parent payments, which happened last week, as well as to child benefit and fuel allowance, the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance, rent supplement, and disability and carer's allowances. There have been extra charges for households, including water, property, school transport, prescription and third level fees, on top of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: National Disability Authority: Chairperson Designate (17 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As Members we are being lobbied by the carer representative associations about cutbacks in recent years. In fairness to all Members, regardless of political perspectives, we have much empathy with carers. They do heroic work while giving love, support and sustenance to their dependants. We want to get to a position where these carers can be fully supported. Leaving aside empathy and...

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...political consensus that people with disabilities would have their dignity and rights maintained and that their families would not be abandoned as a result of ongoing cutbacks. We will not allow those with disabilities and their carers and families to endure cutbacks. I remind Members of this House of the imagery from 2012 of citizens with profound disabilities protesting outside...