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

John Lahart: We are against the clock. How many non-family carers working at the coalface are non-Irish or what is the proportion of such carers?

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

John Lahart: ...message is that different aspects are fine but it takes a village to do it all and we could be doing much more. I go back to the comments about the referendum by the representatives from Family Carers Ireland. On the one hand, they are welcoming it and, on the other, they are saying it does not go far enough. What do they recommend in this regard?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Feb 2024)

John Lahart: 525. To ask the Minister for Health when the new dementia specific weekend day centres are intended to be operational; the locations of same and how carer's/those suffering with dementia can avail of this new and exciting service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5283/24]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: ...and children with special needs. I commend the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Rabbitte, on that because it is very significant. Respite can sometimes be associated with carers and carers of older people, but this provision is equally important. On transport, there has been a halving of the price of public transport for working people and young students. There has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: ...that are huge in Ireland with regard to ensuring a quantitatively and adequate long-term care workforce to meet the rising demand for long-term care and providing a choice and support for informal carers. [8103/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: ...and 1980s is nothing like it is now. The Government retrofit plan has been launched today. There is a retro aspect to making houses livable, in particular older houses, and making it easier for carers to care for people, as opposed to houses having large steps which require ramps to be installed and so on. It is something that the witnesses could make a very rich contribution to....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have had direct experience of the issue of travel. Carers are predominantly female. Depending on when shifts end, in a 24-hour shift divided between people, a young woman could leave a house in a particular area at 10 p.m. or midnight. Given the focus on events arising in the past month, what kind of concerns do care workers express about that? I am sure there is some kind of preference...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the changes to the carer’s allowance means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58004/21]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Public Sector Pay (23 Sep 2021)

John Lahart: ...them have responded in how they look after their employees but we need to get some examples of that. Then there are the unseen who we might not know about and who never get paid anyway. There are carers and SNAs but I trust the Minister and the Government to handle this with sensitivity. If this is handled the wrong way, it could go awry and be very divisive.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (13 Jan 2021)

John Lahart: ...the vaccine? I have a constituent who is over 100 years of age. There cannot be many such people in Ireland. When will such people receive the vaccine? How will they be prioritised? When will carers and the vulnerable get access to the vaccine? When are people who give home care to special needs adults and children, for whom testing for Covid, contracting Covid and isolation are...

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

John Lahart: ...my constituency. That money is going into a big black hole. Subsidised, affordable housing is the way forward. In terms of health, I am concerned about the intensive care unit, ICU, that is to be built in Tallaght Hospital. I am also concerned about the waiting lists, carers, and children with special needs, many of whom are on huge waiting lists for speech and language therapy, for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (9 Jul 2019)

John Lahart: 520. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons people with dementia and their carers are still waiting for equitable and fair access to the supports and services they need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29964/19]

Finance (Office of Tax Simplification) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: .... Issues have arisen for individual taxpayers. There are many tax reliefs, allowances and credits for them. They are put in place to provide supports for individuals and families. For example, the home carer tax credit of up to €1,500 is not being claimed by everyone. It is designed to help families where one parent works in the home to care for one or more children or a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Sep 2017)

John Lahart: 514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for carer's allowance; and when the person can expect a decision. [40497/17]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

John Lahart: ...to be, because internationally people over the age of 65 are least likely to commit fraud. Is it in income or employment supports? Is it with regard to illness, disabilities or in the area of carer's allowance? Does it concern children's payments or supplementary payments such as rent supplement? The Minister will appreciate we are dealing with people who are in a vulnerable...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Jul 2017)

John Lahart: 1530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35991/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (11 Oct 2016)

John Lahart: ...can keep dementia sufferers well in their communities and out of hospitals and long-term care; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that home care packages can also provide support to family carers who provide the majority of home-based care for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29382/16]