Results 1-19 of 19 for carers speaker:Josepha Madigan

Seanad: Rights-Based Care Economy: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...anything, I am sure that will happen. I express my gratitude to the Irish Women's Parliamentary Caucus, which does incredible work on gender equality. One of the Senators mentioned that 77% of carers in Ireland are female. That statistic alone is enough for us to table a motion like this. The Government is strongly committed to ensuring that the rights of everybody with care needs are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Jul 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...interest 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, have also been able to register their interest in working on this year’s Programme. This year’s Home-based programme is again available for pupils with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...interest 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, have also been able to register their interest in working on this year’s Programme. The portal has seen over 1500 personnel registered for schools to avail of,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Jun 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...their interest 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. This year’s Home-based programme is available for pupils with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 May 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...on www.educationposts.ie.An advertisement campaign aimed at recruiting student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care and nursing and others, including early childcare workers and carers, for the role of SNA is currently being promoted in Third Level Colleges. These students will also be able to register their interest in working on this year’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 May 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...programme in a special school. This portal went live on the 1st March 2023 on: www.educationposts.ie. 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.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...their interest in working on a school based programme in a special school. This portal went live on the 1 March 2023 on www.educationposts.ie. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...in a special school. This portal is currently live on www.educationposts.ie. An advertisement campaign aimed at recruiting student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care and nursing and others, including early childcare workers and carers, for the role of SNA is currently being promoted in Third Level Colleges. These students will also be able...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Mar 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...portal is currently live on www.educationposts.ie. 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. Another key support being introduced in 2023 is, where a child’s special school is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Mar 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...school. This portal went live on the 1st March 2023 on www.educationposts.ie. 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. This year, the Primary School Scheme combines the Inclusion Programme...

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...Teaching Council and certain conditions are fulfilled. Schools will have the flexibility to engage staff who are not currently employed in their schools, including those in the early years and youth sectors or carers to run their summer programme. Other examples of which schools have previously successfully availed include students from therapy, nursing or other healthcare-related...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: I can advise the Deputy that my department has established a forum for engagement with parents and advocacy groups representing children with disabilities on a range of issues relating to education provision. There is regular engagement with the stakeholders on all issues and the Department works closely with everyone involved in delivering on the common shared objective of ensuring that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2022)

Josepha Madigan: The Consultative Forum for Special Education provides an opportunity for a broad range of parents of children with special educational needs to contribute to the on-going reform and development of special education policy and provision, and, raise concerns in this regard. The forum covers the special education provision for children of school going age attending recognised primary, special...

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...range of recommendations in this regard. Its recommendations for making the system fairer include linking the employment contractual retirement age to the State pension age; enhanced pension provision for long-term carers who are caring for more than 20 years; options for the introduction of early and deferred access to the State pension, including the option for a person to continue to...

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Josepha Madigan: ...of women. Our Constitution should never narrowly define our roles in society. In today's modern Ireland, both mothers and fathers carry out important family duties in the home, as do grandparents, siblings, carers and others. While many parents choose to stay at home to raise their families, we should not discriminate against working parents, working mothers in particular, who make an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Alignment of Special Education Policy with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Josepha Madigan: ...on board and give everybody confidence to move forward. Obviously, people have concerns and those concerns must be addressed. I meet AsIAm, Down Syndrome Ireland, Inclusion Ireland, Family Carers Ireland and many parental representative bodies on an ongoing basis to make sure their voices are heard. It was very important to me, as the very first dedicated Minister of State with...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Creative Ireland Programme (15 Nov 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...pilot for a poet doctor programme and a 6-month artist residency pilot. The Galway Childcare Committee and Groundswell Arts will pilot ‘The Lullaby Project’ which will partner professional musicians with parents, carers, and early years practitioners to compose bespoke personalised songs for young children in three diverse early years settings. The project will build on...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Josepha Madigan: ...abuse, as well as incidents involving children, coming to light recently. I am speaking specifically about nursing homes and the fair deal scheme. We know taxpayer money has gone to supposed carers who have turned out to be abusers. I have a relevant question. What monitoring and quality assurance measures are now undertaken by the HSE for caregivers? How do we know the level of care...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (29 Nov 2016)

Josepha Madigan: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to the unfair treatment of a secondary carer, who is also a major financial contributor to a child, being unable to receive the single person child carer credit when the primary carer chooses to cohabit and is no longer able to relinquish the credit to the secondary carer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36928/16]