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

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Minister of State on her elevation. I wish her good luck. I welcome this motion and I fully support its objectives. Today in Ireland more than half a million people, one in eight, are family carers providing regular unpaid care. These carers form the backbone of Ireland's care provision, yet they often lack the support and recognition they deserve. The long-term intensive nature...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a carer's application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16787/24]

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this important motion tonight. Relaxing the carer's allowance means test and increasing the disability allowance, invalidity pension, illness benefit, carer's allowance and benefit, and the annual carer's support grant is of paramount importance. I believe that taking care of people in their own home is the best place you can have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Jan 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 952. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review in respect of a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1327/24]

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

Michael Healy-Rae: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance for a person (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55467/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Dec 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will have an application for carer’s allowance reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53669/23]

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

Michael Healy-Rae: As a parent, and indeed a grandparent, and a representative of the people of Kerry, I want to say how sorry and shocked I am to think of innocent little children and their carer and minder being attacked in a savage way. I compliment the gardaí, the firemen, the emergency responders and the ambulance people for facing into what was an awful situation later on that evening. It was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51734/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carers allowance application (details supplied) can be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49848/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...bereavement. This was taken away by Fine Gael and the Labour Party in their heyday. The Government failed to take this on board at a time when there was the ability to pay it to people. It refused. Carers save this State thousands and thousands of euro every week, so why will this Government not give them a fair payment? People caring for their loved ones at home do so much work in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a carer's allowance application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a carers allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42145/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review an application by a person (details supplied) for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21304/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of carer's allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19559/23]

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: First, I thank the excellent carers who provide such an invaluable service in County Kerry, which I represent. Carers play a vital role in society by providing support and care for those who are unable to care for themselves. Carers provide invaluable emotional support for those in their care. This includes offering companionship, listening to concerns and providing comfort during...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remedy an anomaly concerning the means tested payment for carer's allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11133/23]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...everything has gone through the roof so much that we must be meaningful in the changes we make in future. We must consider every way we can assist people, especially vulnerable people. There are people, such as carers, working in the community and helping to keep people in their own homes. If people want to be kept in their own homes, let us consider the cost the State would have to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 321. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans, if any, to link a foster carer's allowance in an incremental way, just in the same way that a clerical officer would have their income increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50828/22]