Results 1-20 of 31 for carers speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (13 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 606. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of recommendation No. 7 of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants; if he will consider establishing a joint labour committee to cover the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6581/24]

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...is the single biggest barrier to making real progress in this country. The lack of affordable housing is preventing us from having enough teachers to fill our schools, nurses to staff our hospitals, and carers and educators for our childcare services. It is the principal reason and impetus behind our kids fleeing to Australia and Canada, or wherever else, in search of greener pastures....

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

Gerald Nash: ...them to service their clients and deliver a service to citizens in rural Ireland in particular. We have a two-tier employment system. As Deputy Duncan Smith said, there are more than 18,000 home carers in the system. The 5,300 HCSAs who work for the HSE have the benefit of collective bargaining and recognition of their union, SIPTU, which has helped to make the sector work much...

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

Gerald Nash: ...the money where it is needed most. It would provide for a bonus in October, not just at Christmas, to those who need it most this year, not in January. It would allow for an immediate increase of €15 per month in pensions, carer's allowance and other payments. Our party leader, Deputy Ivana Bacik, has had an innovative idea for a €9 per month climate public transport...

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

Gerald Nash: ...by more than 50% from just under 200,000 people in 2016 to 300,000 in 2022. What a level of growth that is. We still have too many people who care full time for a loved one whose work is not adequately recognised by the State. We could change that overnight. For a small amount of money we could make sure that at least everyone in receipt of the respite grant gets the carers allowance...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...than tame inflation. Two weeks from today, the Government looks set to make the same mistakes again: social welfare increases that will be too low to restore the purchasing power of pensioners, carers and people with disabilities and a series of energy credits given regardless of income and assets held, when many thousands of people could do with much more. On top of this, separate...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Passport Services (19 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...to make the case for the waiving of passport application fees for children in foster care under the aegis of Tusla, given the fact that such fees are not routinely automatically reimbursed to foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (9 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners is currently writing to carers, widow’s pensioners, people on invalidity pensions and other DSP recipients, with no other income sources requesting them to complete income tax return before 31 October 2022 and 16 November 2022 for previous years 2019, 2020 and 2021 due to PAYE...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (8 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners are currently writing to carers, widow’s pensioners, people on invalidity pensions and other DSP recipients, with no other income sources requesting them to complete income tax return before 31 October 2022 and 16 November 2022 for previous years 2019, 2020 and 2021 due to...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...again next spring, mark my words, having the same arguments and having a discussion about emergency interventions to assist those who need the most help. I say this because budget 2023 is inadequate, and it will fail. A Government that was serious about supporting those who are the most in need would bring rates of weekly payments for pensioners, for carers and for the disabled above...

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...the State has sadly failed. It is an indictment of all of us, quite frankly. There has been a failure to make early interventions that can transform lives, assess, invest, support families and carers, prioritise and provide the humanity and basic simple compassion we ought to expect from a State and society that trades on a well-honed reputation for justice and humanitarianism. This...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...€3. We propose this €5 rate because of the threat of rising food and utility costs as a result of the prospect of a no-trade deal Brexit and the impact of this on the ability of a welfare recipient to make ends meet should be clear to everybody. This Government has, yet again, failed to address the real needs of carers in this society. The rather tokenistic changes that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Programme for Government (7 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the home carer tax credit as outlined in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14607/20]

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Joint Labour Committees) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...people of Ireland understood that. We spend €430 million per year on the working family payment in this State - money that could be better funnelled into our schools and health system and towards our carers, who are doing remarkable work across this country. Spending €430 million per year on the working family payment is a massive subsidisation of poverty wages and a form...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2019)

Gerald Nash: We should have that debate. The Labour Party will propose a motion in the Dáil later this evening regarding additional supports for carers. I hope that the House will unite behind that proposal, which includes many of the propositions outlined in Senator Conway-Walsh's contribution. The spin that we have seen over the last couple days in particular from Fine Gael on today's hospital...

Seanad: Budget 2018: Statements (10 Oct 2017)

Gerald Nash: ...services through taxes on what is essentially property speculation. While we are on the subject of tax cuts, those who depend on the State for their income will be angered to see that the €5 increase being provided to pensioners, carers, jobseekers and others receiving social welfare payments, which was promised by the Government today, actually amounts to as little as an average of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Carers Strategy Implementation (15 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: The National Carers' Strategy published in 2012 by the Department of Health, sets out the strategic direction for policies, services and supports provided for carers. This strategy, prepared in consultation with carers, established the key priorities to support carers given scarce resources and a Carers' Forum is held annually to continue to give carers a voice at policy level. The Family...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Carers Strategy Implementation (15 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: The National Carer's Strategy published in 2012 by the Department of Health, sets out the strategic direction for policies, services and supports provided for carers. This strategy, prepared in consultation with carers, established the key priorities to support carers given scarce resources and a Carers' Forum is held annually to continue to give carers a voice at policy level. The Family...

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Gerald Nash: ...floor of economic and social decency. The free travel scheme works. It does exactly what it says on the tin and represents a very important tool in combatting social disadvantage among older people, carers and those who are entitled to have companion passes. The Members opposite will know that administrative reviews of schemes take place on a regular basis but that does not amount to a...