Results 1-20 of 204 for carers speaker:Richard Bruton

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...fruitful retirement through supporting rightsizing, early release of pension savings in certain circumstances, more flexibility in continued working from employers, better recognition of family carers and in other ways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15262/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...a recent column by a prominent journalist describing the difficulties in that regard. To take another example, while we do not support family caring through the tax code, we do support paid carers, but only 1,600 cases of those reliefs are being provided for. The intention is there, but it is not getting through in a lot of these cases and there needs to be innovative thinking.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has systems for identifying and supporting more vulnerable carers, such as older parents caring for ageing children with disabilities, in order that extra supports could be developed in partnership with other Government agencies. [13553/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if he has conducted any census of carers to identify the circumstances of their care, their access to information and support, their age profile, and their capacity to continue; if he will indicate where the findings may be obtained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13528/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...consider a cross-Government initiative to see that everyone gets their entitlements in full? People are losing €250 million in unclaimed tax relief on medical expenses, €280 million in carer's support grant, €62 million in unclaimed GP cards and €140 million in unclaimed working family dividend. Many of these are our most vulnerable families. There are 85,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered initiatives to identify the extent of underclaiming of entitlements from her Department by categories such the low paid at work, by carers, and by pensioners, for whom rules of entitlement may be poorly understood; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7859/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...funds have been left unclaimed mostly by the most vulnerable families. I will give the Tánaiste a few examples. We know there has only been a take-up of 3% for the new GP card entitlements, 3% as well for the carer's support grant and 35% for the rent relief. The biggest of all these schemes has only seen a take-up of 25% for the working family payment. A cross-government...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of people who qualify for the carer’s support grant and how many of these receive it automatically because they are already in receipt of a carer’s payment or domiciliary care allowance; how many qualify through a specific application for the grant and whether she has made any...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: The Oireachtas had an opportunity to hear from family carers this morning. While they welcome innovations coming from the Government, such as the carer's pension, they have identified a number of gaps, including in the statutory home care proposal and support for assisted living wraparound services. When will the commission for older people get under way? Can we expect that the home carer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Recommendations on the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: .... I am interested in having an idea of that. One of the areas that has posed difficulty over time has been roles such as au pair, or people who work overnight in caring situations, including carers who stay overnight. There has always been an issue as to whether those arrangements are in breach of labour law. This overnight rate was one of the ways of trying to bridge the gap between...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current estimated date for the commencement of the provision which would see a specific pension for carers; if phasing arrangements are planned for the introduction of same and if she will outline the detail. [42139/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate her latest estimate for the numbers of recipients of domiciliary care allowance, working family payment, carer's allowance, carer's benefit and carer's support grant; and her estimate of the number of children deriving support from these payments in each case. [40361/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 858. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated number of children being cared for in the private home of the carer; the number of applications which have been made for the interim support to such carers; and what steps need to be taken before these carers could be included within the supports of the national childcare scheme. [40352/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people who have benefitted from the increase in the home carers tax credit in Budget 2023. [33344/23]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...people in their position. This year's budget is particularly effective, and I commend the Minister and her colleagues on identifying families at risk who might otherwise have been overlooked, renters, carers, the low paid at work, and those with children and students. The help for those groups has been particularly significant. In the present climate, I also commend the Minister on her...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (20 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: 316. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department is developing a strategy for carers; if closer integration of the work of his Department with other agencies is envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50626/22]

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...this measure fails the equity test. It meets the equity test on two very strong standards. It provides free retrofitting for all the families who live in local authority homes, the low paid at work, carers, people on disability allowance with young children, people on jobseeker's allowance with young children and people on the fuel scheme. This is very targeted at people who are at risk...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...for older people and isolation hollowing out their lives. Is it now time to rebalance our policy towards older people to put greater emphasis on being able to live independently? I welcome the new carers' policy, the pilot for homecare model, but we need new impetus to drive this so that coming out of Covid we have knowledge that older people need to be cared for in a different way.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider arrangements for prolonging a general practitioner card cover after a person ceases acting as a carer. [6143/22]