Results 1-11 of 11 for carers speaker:Hildegarde Naughton

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...in working on a school-based programme in a Special School. Student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care and nursing and others, including early childcare workers and carers, will also be able to register their interest in working on this year’s Programme. In 2023, the Inclusion Programme and Special Class elements from 2022 were combined to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...in working on a school-based programme in a Special School. Student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care and nursing and others, including early childcare workers and carers, will also be able to register their interest in working on this year’s Programme. In 2023, the Inclusion Programme and Special Class elements from 2022 were combined to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...in working on a school-based programme in a Special School. Student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care and nursing and others, including early childcare workers and carers, will also be able to register their interest in working on this year’s Programme. In 2023, the Inclusion Programme and Special Class elements from 2022 were combined to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...the Central Fund) Order 2024 (without debate) - Statements on International Women’s Day (not to exceed 2 hrs 27 mins) Tuesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers, selected by Sinn Féin. Wednesday's business shall be: - Motion re Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Jan 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...and strategies and a shared commitment to supporting positive health and wellbeing outcomes in community and healthcare settings for the public, health service staff, patients, their families and carers, as well as the development of creativity and the arts more broadly. Working with the Creative Ireland Programme, the HSE and the Arts Council, a range of initiatives have been funded to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2023 (back from Committee) (without debate) - Motions for Revised Estimates for Public Services 2023 [Votes 1 to 10, 13, 29 and 33] (back from Committee) (to be moved together and decided...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (21 Mar 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ..., and notices for submissions remained live until January 2023. This phase of the process has now concluded. Over 400 submissions were received in total, among them submissions on the subject of carers. A Census Advisory Group will be set up in the coming months to consider the submissions received and advise on the questions to be tested in a pilot survey planned to be carried in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...scheme administered by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (D/EASP), which is available to persons aged 66 years or over who are permanently resident in the State, and to all carers in receipt of Carers' Allowance. The Scheme is also available to certain people with disabilities and people who are in receipt of certain welfare type payments. The fundamental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I also thank the Minister for her excellent briefing today. My question relates to a different subject, namely, carers. It is estimated that the care given in the home each year comes to approximately €4 billion. It understandable that given the move away from institutional-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...to be given in the home. I understand the constraints and realise the Minister is inundated with requests at this time of the year in regard to increased spending. I refer, in particular, to the Carers Association's submission to the Department and would like to hear the Minister's views on its request to formally acknowledge the half rate carer's grant as a core payment and on the...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...will mean more people will move away from social welfare dependency and become taxpayers and contributors, which will ease the decisions that must be made in future budgets. The State pension, the carer's allowance, the fuel allowance, the electricity and gas allowance, free travel, the half-carer's allowance and the disability allowance have not been touched. Moreover, it is important...