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

Johnny Guirke: ...people with a disability feel they have been forgotten about. Many fear they will have to move out of their home because they cannot continue to live independently due to a lack of support. Many carers I have spoken to have told me they go into a client's home on their days off to assist them. That is scandalous. If not for the compassion shown by those carers, their clients would not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...of Tom and Maria Browne of Delvin, County Westmeath. Tom is 85 years old. He is a retired member of the Defence Forces and has had two strokes. His wife Maria is 73, has diabetes and is his main carer. They have rented the same house in Delvin for the past 11 years. Recently, they were served with a notice to quit. They currently pay rent of €700 a month. The most they could...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: 814. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has given any consideration to the long-running issue of the inclusion of Tusla-approved foster carers in State pension (contributory) contributions for the entire period of being on the approved panel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12689/23]

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...by a 100-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man. Since then, horrendous stories started to pour in about excessive electricity bills and people not knowing how they will pay them. I spoke to a carer the other day. She takes care of an 89-year-old woman. When she visited that woman last week, she had a coat and a scarf on in her own home in the middle of the day to keep warm. She will...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Sep 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...of workers who are not paid directly by the HSE, such as those working in the private sector, in nursing homes, agency staff, people working in long-term residential care, people working in home help, carers and others, have not received this payment. When will these people see this payment in their bank accounts? We need a date from the Department of Health and we need it to stick to...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...fight tooth and nail to get their children what they are entitled to? They must fight for housing, school places, special needs assistants, SNAs, school transport, speech and language classes and carers allowance. They must battle for any and all kinds of assistance. Yet the biggest fight they face is getting what they are entitled to from the State. In the context of the Mind the Gap...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Johnny Guirke: I commend my fellow Deputies on introducing this motion. Some 500,000 family carers across the country provide in-home supports every week. They are loyal and dedicated and save this State up to €20 billion each year. In most cases, they work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the majority not getting paid for half the hours they have worked. The latter equates to up to 19...