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Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Regional Group for bringing this worthy motion before us today. I will be supporting it 100%. There have been many promises in the past in regard to helping carers but they have fallen on deaf ears, so far. The nub of the problem is that means testing for carer's allowance will have to be abolished - full stop, no ifs or buts about it. There are other groups that should not be...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely debate. If the Government really wanted to help carers and people with disabilities, it could have clearly done so in the budget. The disability capacity review tells us that between €80 million and €90 million was needed yet the Government only provided €64 million. The €20 million...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will exempt the carer’s payment from a means test (details supplied). [15410/23]

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Harkin and the Independent Group for bringing this very important motion before the House. I thank all the carers who do excellent work in County Kerry, especially the home carers. We talk about carers. When someone is caring for someone who needs a lot of care, they are actually living in their world for the 365 days and nights of every year. I know one particular man who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. One part I left out there is respite for family carers. There are no respite places. I know a woman who wishes to go to Lisbon or somewhere for a family wedding. She is caring for her husband and there is no place available for her. There is only one place in Kenmare and it is similar in Killarney. They get a rota to which one has to adhere and she just cannot get respite for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer's allowance payment would be exempt from a means test if the medical needs of the patient and the level of care being provided are assessed that it should be sufficient. [51022/22]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of people has been totally and utterly neglected; namely, elderly parents who are now in their 70s and 80s. They would be doing good enough to look after themselves without needing home helps and carers to do so, but they are also trying to mind older children who cannot mind themselves. These are strong boys and girls whose parents are not physically able to manage them anymore because...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...that again? For a long time we did have enough professionals. We are here today discussing regulating professionals but the sad fact is that we do not have enough in all the areas I mentioned. Carers, those who are caring for family members, are not really being appreciated at home. They do not get sufficient time off or whatever. It is a tough struggle for some of them who find...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...students and primary level students but there is nothing whatsoever for secondary students. They have been left out. I welcome the increase for social welfare, for disability payments and for carers but at this juncture I have to say that carers should not be means tested. The devil is in the detail and there is a lot to it. The first thing is the 13.5% VAT rate. The Government...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank the Independent Group for bringing this very important motion before us today. I hope the Government will assist in doing something about the position of carers. It is very important for carers to get some respite so they can keep the family member in the home for as long as possible. I know an old gentleman, and he is a gentleman, of 86 years of age who is trying to care for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...on these roads pay for everything, from motor tax, to property tax, to income tax. They are ordinary working-class people, people who are going to work, farmers and elderly people who require carers and home help to visit them. Other counties have been allocated funding in proportion to what is on the local improvement scheme list.

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What we are asking for is very minimal. These are hard-working people who pay their taxes. They are contributing to us in this Chamber and to services, whether those are carers, pensions or whatever. They are contributing like everyone else and they do not have surety of work. They are dependent on the weather as to whether they can go out to fish. We are asking the Minister to double...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...be to monitor every last thing going on in the HSE on the ground. The Irish Medical Council will draw up a report. Will it be influenced by the HSE? I have heard too often from hardworking nurses and carers who are afraid to open their mouths about any inadequacies in the HSE in the hospitals or any of the care facilities. Why are they afraid? They would be ostracised or maybe lose...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to be fair to people in these rural areas. People living on these roads are entitled to good roads to their door, the same as people in Dublin 4. These roads are not private; they are public. There are carers, nurses and doctors using them to get to people who are sick on a daily basis or several times a day to keep people living at home. This is a serious matter. They have no option...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance eligibility criteria will be reviewed to allow those in receipt of benefit payments such as jobseeker’s, illness benefit, carers benefit and so on to qualify; and if she will review the requirement of 15 months or more on jobseeker’s allowance in order to qualify for the fuel allowance, which is discouraging...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister to review the eligibility criteria for the fuel allowance and to allow those in receipt of benefit payments including jobseeker's payments, illness benefit and carer's benefit to qualify. I also ask her to review the requirement for applicants to have been on jobseeker's allowance for 15 months or longer in order to qualify for the fuel allowance. This discourages people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...that the required funding is made available to safeguard the necessary services, ensure lifelong supports for persons with intellectual and physical disabilities and assist ageing parents and carers who are struggling to manage. [48967/21]

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...elderly and vulnerable people living at home, such as a man in his late 70s in east Kerry who has had a leg amputated, as well as a stroke and several other health complications during his life? Carers are in and out of his home daily to try to keep him alive and at home. He needs the vaccine. When will vaccines be delivered to the people of Kerry who are confined to their homes? ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... We are still waiting in 2021 and will perhaps wait for several more years. Will the Government be fair to the people in rural Ireland? Many of these people are elderly, and perhaps sick, and carers and home help workers are trying to get in and out on roads that are in a desperate state. People living on these roads are entitled to a good road to their door, the same as the people...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., Deer Lodge and Cherryfield House in Killarney, should be vaccinated sooner rather than later. The workers who are doing such great work should be vaccinated as soon as possible. Home helps and carers who are in and out of the homes of the elderly and who do great work day in, day out, to ensure the elderly and those with disabilities can remain in their own homes for as long as...