Results 1-20 of 31 for carers speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (16 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Ukrainians living in Ireland who are in receipt of the carer's allowance, disability allowance and jobseeker's allowance, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when maintenance payments to carers will be disregarded as means for social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10237/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...We have a lot of good stories to tell in this country but unfortunately those children are left behind. In this case, they were promised respite, and yes one night a week came. They were promised carers for five days a week but they never showed up. Given the way it treats young children with disabilities, is this the Ireland the Tánaiste envisages and is this the way the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the carers review requested by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11969/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Jan 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63883/22]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak. It is welcome that the thresholds for the carer's allowance have been lifted a bit. My honest opinion is that anybody who gives up a job to mind someone belonging to them as a carer should not be means tested because the service such a person does for the State is unbelievable. I also welcome the move on childcare. The devil will be in the detail and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's application by a person (details supplied) who is providing full-time care for both their parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30659/21]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...and she probably will because we were on a group regarding to it previously, is helping local communities to keep a nucleus of people from the area in one-bedroom or two-bedroom chalets. That way, one carer or nurse could call to them and they would stay in their communities for as long as possible. We are well aware that it would not work for everybody but it might help people with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 May 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseeker's allowance, disability allowance and carer's allowance appeals currently pending within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24240/21]

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...regard to rates and overhead charges. Will the Government commit to making sure these supports are continued? The simple reason is that there will be no jobs if the employers are gone. On carers, I note what the Minister of State said earlier in response to Deputy Colm Burke. I have seen instances such as the person who works in Dublin and then goes home as a carer to mind another...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (8 Sep 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the means test threshold relating to the carer’s allowance will be reviewed in cases in which carers find themselves outside of the cut off rate in view of the fact no consideration is given to their weekly and monthly commitments while they provide 24/7 care with no available support; and if she will make a...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...nothing for them. If we are not going to act on the outcome of a motion, we should not debate it to start with. People thought they had won an all-Ireland final that night when the motion passed and everybody was excited but nothing has happened since and those people have not been looked after. It is a similar position for carers. We have not talked about the fair deal scheme and...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion, which I support. Care work is a vocation. Carers put in hours and hours to help their loved ones and close relatives, be they young children, middle aged or elderly. Sometimes, in desperate situations, carers are looking for respite help and it is not out there. Take, for example, a child with autism whose parent is his or her carer. That...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 18 December 2018, when a decision will issue in relation to a review of a carer's allowance application submitted in April 2018 by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8855/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (31 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on a carer's application by a person (details supplied) will be made; the reason for the delay with same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4769/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (18 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in regard to a review of a carer's allowance application submitted in April 2018 by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52956/18]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...the love of his or her mother or father, if one of them got sick, the person would go home to help care for that parent. Say the woman's husband was on whatever amount or on the income threshold, and she wanted to look for carer's allowance to mind her loved one, she will be refused carer's allowance. By the way, giving it to her could save the State probably €800 a week even...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am sound. I welcome this opportunity to speak on the budget. I looked at what the Minister said about a responsible, caring and modern Ireland. He used the word "caring". Let us look at the carers throughout the country who give of their time, and some people give up their jobs, but there is nothing in the budget for them, unfortunately. It is something we have highlighted during the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Oct 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if foster carers that apply for the carer's allowance are means tested on the foster carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40860/18]