Results 1-18 of 18 for carers speaker:Gino Kenny

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: How beneficial would a register be for the roll-out of services, for carers and those living with dementia?

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: ...system between private and public healthcare. It did not really make a difference because public healthcare was at the cutting edge in trying to provide people with a way out of the pandemic. Carers play an enormous role in the fabric of life, whether paid or not. I was a carer before I entered the Dáil and when my time in here finishes, I will probably go back to care work. It...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Gino Kenny: ...care and proper pay and conditions. There are people in our society who earn hundreds of thousands of euro and sometimes you have to ask yourself what social good they do. The social good of a carer who is meeting the most basic needs of a fellow human being is vital. Sometimes we do not recognise that in a capitalist society. I hope the tendering process will give a living wage to...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Gino Kenny: ...reports about families for whom that service was simply gone. It was so distressing to hear family members say they had nothing and describe how they could now see their child regressing, Many carers provide a vital service, not only for their children, loved ones and so forth, and that can go unnoticed at times. There should be a statutory entitlement for carers to 20 days' annual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (14 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 1293. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons living with dementia and their family carers; his further views on the lack of consideration and strategy in terms of addressing the unique needs of this group during the pandemic; if the omission of the group will be addressed by specifically including it in current and future discussions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (14 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: ...report (details supplied); his further views on the conclusion in the report that policy and practice needs to focus on the way in which persons living with dementia and their informal and formal carers can be optimally supported; his plans to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (14 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 1296. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether persons with dementia and their family carers have been rendered invisible during the Covid-19 crisis; the way in which he will ensure that dementia is given high priority in terms of public health policy, research into its impact and future planning with regard to Covid-19; if the issuing of guidelines for the reopening of services...

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Gino Kenny: ...and are sometimes not that well-paid compared to a directly employed worker. The HSE pays private operators an hourly rate which is almost twice what the workers get. With a directly employed carer the money goes to the worker rather than a private operator. I understand that the Minister of State is setting up a statutory scheme, which is welcome. However, the most controversial part...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Gino Kenny: I speak not as a politician or an activist but as a carer. I was a carer for 15 years before I came into this place and worked as a home care worker for ten years. The service is vital for the family and the client. It has a huge place in primary care and in a health service and the announcement of what is almost a moratorium on home care hours is very unfortunate. This will be...

Older People: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2018)

Gino Kenny: .... In another blow to elderly people Fianna Fáil intended to reduce the State pension in 2011, but huge pressure from elderly groups made it back down. However, it managed to make significant cuts to carer's benefit, carer's allowance, disability allowance, widow's, widower's and surviving civil partner's contributory pension and death benefit, all of which hugely affected the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (19 Apr 2018)

Gino Kenny: ...on the steering group in view of the fact that the policies being discussed and decided will directly affect their children and that they have a unique insight and experience being full-time carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16895/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Dec 2016)

Gino Kenny: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the urgent respite that can be offered to such carers and the long-term remedy he is considering in view of the reply to parents of disabled adults that there is a ten-year waiting list for residential care and that the HSE is unable to provide them with an average waiting time, or indicate when a bed may be available; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 77. To ask the Minister for Health the increases in staffing that have been achieved to deal with the crisis in home help and carer respite services; the number of persons in hospital with their discharge delayed waiting to access these services; the number of carers that have been unable to continue as carers due to the lack of respite services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers Strategy Implementation (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 122. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made on implementing the recommendations of the national carers strategy; when he will publish and fund phase 2 of the strategy between 2016 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18803/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (30 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will abolish means testing for the carer's allowance, increase the respite care grant and replace the mobility allowance that ceased in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18802/16]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: ...bit. It encapsulates everything that is wrong with these charges.I want to raise this issue of the new pay-by-weight bin charges announced by Greyhound and other bin companies. I am a full-time carer for my sister, who has Downs syndrome and who suffers from adult urinary incontinence. I need to use my bin daily to dispose of adult nappies and pads. As a result of the new charges, my...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (25 May 2016)

Gino Kenny: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to afford a full stamp to persons who are in receipt of the carer's allowance in order that, in the event of their carer's job ending, they are eligible for full benefits and in recognition of the service they are providing to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11642/16]

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Gino Kenny: ...some of the most vulnerable workers who look after some of our most vulnerable citizens. Those home care cuts have had a serious and detrimental effect, not only on the recipients of care but also on carers themselves. It is estimated that every year up to 75,000 people need to avail of home help services but, according to the HSE, only 21,000 people are currently benefiting from some...