Results 1-20 of 27 for carers speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish the Minister of State well in her new job. It is a really important role, particularly when it comes to carers. She knows that carers, and family carers in particular, comprise one of the most neglected groups of people in the State. They save us hundreds of millions of euro, and we pay lip service to their efforts. There are many things we can do. There is not a TD in this House...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I thank my colleague, Deputy Pauline Tully, for bringing forward this motion. We certainly need a more humane approach for people with disabilities and carers. We need to work to make a real and lasting difference in people's lives. I know there will be lots of carers and people with disabilities looking in tonight, and as often happens, the picture that is painted is so...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...committee. The Minister of State probably would not know now, but perhaps will include it in her response to the committee, whether it is still the case that Ireland includes payments to family carers in the healthcare expenditure we report to the OECD. Is that the norm among the OECD countries? Ireland includes the home care services, the group homes in the community for people with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the reasons it warns about the comparability of national figures on health expenditure is that it relies on countries to produce their own data. Is it still the case that in Ireland payments to family carers are included in the healthcare expenditure we report to the OECD? Is it the norm among OECD countries to include such payments in their expenditure?

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...or allocated that without ever measuring those allocations. For example, does the money allocated for disability get to the children with disabilities, to the parents of children with disabilities, to the carers who are caring, or to the people breaking their backs trying to keep this country going? It does not, and the reason it does not is that this Government does not care. I know...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... Why are there young people with disabilities living in nursing homes? Elderly parents of children with disabilities need to know there is an agreed care plan for their children. The Government is failing to provide enough adult day services, respite services and home care packages, pushing carers to breaking point and leaving them in financial stress. Sinn Féin would invest over...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Chair for allowing me in. I want to speak on this subject. I welcome what has been said, and I hope it means foster carers will be eligible for pensions after this. It needs to happen as soon as possible. I met a group of foster carers in County Mayo on Monday, and what they told me was quite shocking, particularly with regard to foster carers looking after children with...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...quality of living we should be giving to older people in their own homes. I want to speak about respite, not only for elderly people but also for families who are in desperate situations. Family carers do wonderful a job in the home but they need a break. Siblings also need a break where there are children with disabilities. There was a story in the Mayo Newslast week about a severely...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...not raise the rent because she knew her tenant could not afford it. There are many responsible landlords but there are others who are exploiting the situation out of base. I know of professional carers who work full-time and share a room with five other people, particularly in cities. English-language students are often packed into overcrowded conditions by unscrupulous landlords. I...

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...seem to be going on wholesale. This type of behaviour needs to be called out across all Departments. Many of these students and workers are in low-paid but vital jobs. Many of them worked in nursing homes as carers during the pandemic. They deserve to be treated with respect and protected. The Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...point in that campaign and in getting the financial institutions to listen. I hope people are listening today. I am heartened that all of the Government representatives here today support Family Carers Ireland's strategy. They are representatives of the Government and they are saying that this must be done. There is a commitment that has to be followed through on not only with regard...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (17 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to increase the rate of allowance for foster carers, considering that it has not been increased since 2009 and is clearly no longer in line with escalating living costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24117/22]

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...be homeless. That is the dilemma women throughout this country face. Words are fine but, as my colleague Deputy Funchion said, we must do something about it as a matter of urgency. I remember carers today. We rightly thank them, but when the opportunity came to give them the Covid bonus, we turned our backs on family carers again. That is not good enough. Too often we pay lip...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Mayo in receipt of the carer’s allowance; if they will receive a bonus payment for their contribution throughout the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5491/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...that the Government is going to examine cost of living again and the impact that it is having. My question is very pertinent because it is about giving the Covid bonus payment to the 500,000 family carers around the country. There would be no better way of showing that the work of carers is really respected and that the Government recognises the severe impact that energy prices and fuel...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...front-line healthcare workers, including ambulance workers and others. I understand that many other groups of workers also had reasonable requests for some recognition of their contribution. However, carers' shifts never end and they had no respite during the pandemic. They often did not have the time to do homeschooling either. They really were the ones that were there, and they did...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Sep 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1124. To ask the Minister for Health when general practitioner care without fees will be extended to carers in receipt of the carer’s support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41803/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (27 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many stamp 2 visa holders are working nursing homes and as carers; the steps that are being taken to ensure that student workers with underlying health conditions or employment in healthcare settings are not forced into in-person classes by English language schools and by the conditions of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...that if they do not return to in-person classes, they could be deported. Do they have any recourse if they have underlying health conditions or if they work in a nursing home, as many do, or as a carer? On what public health advice was the decision to bring them back to in-class tuition at this particular time based? I think there are 10,000 of them. What safety measures are in place...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...classes due to their visa requirements. If they refuse to attend they could lose their visas and be deported. It is more chaos and more confusion. Most of these students work in nursing homes and as carers but regardless of their jobs or their personal health conditions they are being given no choice but to return to in-person classes. Yet they are told they cannot sit in a restaurant,...