Results 1-20 of 41 for carers speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...recently in the media but I will not dignify those comments by repeating them. What I will say is this. We, in Sinn Féin, see the importance of the State and the role the State must play in supporting carers and people with disabilities. It is a very great pity that the man who heads the Government does not see the same. Government policy is writ large on the stressed-out faces...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a way to have contributions for self-employed persons working the requisite number of hours to qualify for carer's benefit where they do not pay contributions in class A, B, C, D, E and H; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5039/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...working people who believe in community. Like all Dubliners, I am heartbroken by what happened in Dublin last Thursday. How in the name of God did we come to this? Three young children and their carer were stabbed outside their school in broad daylight. It is every parent’s worst nightmare. Our hearts go out to those children, their parents and their families, especially the...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...in my home town. I know that Deputies across the whole House will want to state their feelings strongly and express their revulsion at the heinous attack on the innocent children and their carer. Like everyone, the minute I heard the news of the horrific knife attack on small children, and on the people minding them, I was frozen to the spot with shock. I send my support and solidarity...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...a tiny percentage of that is available to him or her. The Minister's budget was a disaster for the kids in my area. They are going to be left waiting for CDNT appointments. It was a disaster for carers who need support and for anyone struggling to provide services. The Minister must realise that the allocation for disability services is not adequate and simply must be revised. People...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...resolution in this area but it has to be matched with people. It has to be matched with a plan and it has to be matched with services that actually deliver for the parents, the guardians and the carers who are doing a massive service to the State every single day of the week. I have said this on more than one occasion. If they were to ballot for industrial action, they would not be on...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank everyone who has contributed to the debate this evening. Workers, families, pensioners, carers, people on fixed and low incomes, people on modest and moderate incomes are being absolutely creased. Rents have increased; they are the highest in Europe. Energy bills have increased. The numbers in arrears with their electricity and energy bills are spiralling out of control. More...

Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is 15 years since I first engaged with politicians in relation to the issue of home carers and home helps. I was representing them at the time and we warned politicians that there was a crisis coming in home care because of the terms and conditions of employment and because of the privatisation which, as the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, will be aware, fired the starting gun for the...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: .... This Bill will not be worth the paper it is written on and certainly will not deliver for low- and middle-income workers if the leave is not paid. The crux of the Bill is aimed at parents and carers - two very important groups. It provides the right to reasonable access to flexible working arrangements, which is welcome. The majority of caring and parenting responsibilities are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1376. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance or support is available from the HSE for families on the direct funding scheme for home care who cannot find carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19375/22]

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: ...would be paid instead of leaving all of these questions in the air. People feel they were told they were going to qualify only then to be told they would not. This is very much true in the case of family carers. We all know the work they do. We see them in our constituency offices. More often, we speak to them on the phone because very often they cannot get out to visit us in our...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Construction Industry (17 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...the local authorities sign the cheque and there is no follow-up on the terms and conditions. Essentially, these people are performing a function on behalf of the State. Where the State directly employs a nurse, carer, doctor or teacher, there is a rate for the job and that rate is respected. There is a pension and that is paid. That is not happening in the construction sector and I am...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Carer's Allowance (10 Feb 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 902. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which carer's allowance application forms, CR1 forms, are not being completed by general practitioners; the advice for persons who need forms filled out to have applications processed; if consideration has been given to waiving the need for such forms to be completed for the duration of Covid-19 restrictions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Feb 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 751. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some general practitioners are not filling out forms that require a medical certificate, such as carer’s allowance applications; the alternative methods of completing application forms; if he has considered issuing guidance to general practitioners on the processing of forms; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of carer's allowance are subject to Garda vetting as part of the application process for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39642/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of carers allowance are subject to Garda vetting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39643/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...financial well-being. The Government must give them the small amount of support that they will need to be able to get through the next few months. They want to be back at work. The Minister mentioned the plight of carers, who have been long-neglected by this and the previous Government. I sincerely hope that she is not trying to pit carers, people with disabilities and those in...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...majeureleave can be extended separately. This would also cover a group that is noticeably absent from this legislation, although I am sure that absence was not the intention when drafting it. Carers have been left out of the Bill but should be included. If day services close, then the carer of a person who attends those services will also have to isolate. It is important that we make...