Results 1-20 of 26 for carers speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...to me to be a grossly undermet need. I stood in a constituent's house this week, looking at the care schedule for a gentleman in Carysfort Downs in Blackrock. I looked at all the different carers who were coming in. There were five or six carers every day. This man is at a period of acute need in his life. Looking at the management processes, some carers come two or three times a...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and that it was not something we pushed for in the end because it was incapable of being defined. Family care and supporting care in general is a very strong political philosophy for me. I have been a family carer caring for a very sick child for a number of years. I remain alive to the changing circumstances that could require me to go back to that full-time caring role. I was...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...concept, is to be deleted, that is good and something I want to vote for. I want the people of Ireland, not just the women of Ireland, to vote for it. I have spent time in the home as a family carer and I have spent time in universities and the Oireachtas. I, like so many others, have multiple experiences from different stages in life, but the Constitution identifies me, Deputy Bacik...

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Finance): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...in USC rates in five years. It is also important to mention that the entry threshold will be raised to €25,760 in line with the increase in the national minimum wage, and the USC concession for medical card holders will be extended a further two years. In addition, the home carer and single person child carer tax credits will increase by €100 and the incapacitated child tax...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Children in Care (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...for them. That is best done, in the vast majority of cases, in the foster care system. It is the preferred option for children who cannot, for any reason, live with their birth family. Foster carers play a vital, greatly empathetic and in many cases a really difficult role in trying to support children at different stages of their lives in a secure, safe, stable home environment. I am...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Children in Care (5 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is really important that the Senator highlighted this issue today. Those figures about the decrease of 4% in the number of foster carers that are there are very worrying. Of course that comes at a time of population increase of greater than 4% or anything remotely equivalent to it. Quite a number of children have come from very difficult circumstances around the world, many of whom may...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...bonus. Lump sum payments were made to people who are in receipt of the fuel allowance, living alone allowance and the working family payment. A €500 once-off payment was made to those receiving the carer's support grant, the disability allowance, the blind pension and the disability pension. A further double child benefit payment was made to approximately 640,000 families....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused a carer's support grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1524/23]

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...her work on that. I also note that she has managed to introduce the first increase in that allowance since 2009, bringing it up to €330 a month. That comes on the back of last year's good progress on carers, where there was the first really significant extension to the income thresholds, and a savings disregard for that, for 14 years. These are exactly the sorts of values I want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...face. A group of parents were before the Joint Committee on Autism recently. The five or six guests of the committee were all women. This Government has extended considerably the eligibility for carer's allowance. Those are the sorts of practical things the Government can do to try to help. Deputy Hourigan spoke about maintenance. There are women from every walk of life and across...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...but that is deliberately balanced by upfront payments between now and Christmas, designed to target people who will need it most. There will be a double payment to all social protection recipients, including pensioners, carers and people on disability payments, in October and in December. There are lump-sum allowances to be paid to those receiving the fuel allowance, the living alone...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time that it takes to process an application for carer’s allowance; the steps, if any, that are being taken to make the assessments required for the application more efficient; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34027/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the changes to the domiciliary care allowance and carer’s allowance payments in respect of children in hospital will take effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (14 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to expanding the home carer tax allowance in limited circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61366/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that but we have also heard about the complex reasons that might be so, particularly with regard to carers and disability. I note the Comptroller and Auditor General has commented on the oral hearings and written procedures and the level of discretion available in that regard. As I understand it, oral hearings are held essentially at the discretion of the appeals officer....

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes made in budget 2022 to the eligibility for the carer’s allowance; the estimated number of persons who will benefit from this change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57202/21]

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are have been huge advances in the carers' allowance, including the means test for the carers allowance, and I want to thank the Minister and congratulate her on that work. It is transformative to have changed the means test and the disregard in the way she has. I am sorry if I came in early. There are a series of linked questions.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will speak about two matters, the overall macroeconomic situation and the carer's allowance. I greatly welcome the budget at this time. I see it as a stability and transition budget away from the €48 billion we have had to spend to support the economy, individuals and businesses through the Covid pandemic into a period, now, of a real economic recovery and stability for our people...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are currently available to families with children in hospital; if consideration has been given to placing a social welfare officer on site at children’s hospitals to provide necessary information on exceptional needs payments and carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if further consideration has been given to examination of the thresholds for earning in relation to the qualification for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48265/21]