Results 1-20 of 98 for carers speaker:Pauline Tully

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

Pauline Tully: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion and affording us the opportunity to address the House on the need to review and reform support for carers. Family carers have long been held up as a crucial pillar of parent support in Ireland. Various departmental strategies and documents refer to the important role that family carers play in our society, viewing them as the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...the visits but she is practically a prisoner in her own home because she cannot go to the service she enjoyed so much. Her mother is now practically a prisoner as well because she is her main carer. She cannot get out to do whatever she needs to do because her daughter needs full-time care and assistance at home. What is happening is directly affecting people and their families. ...

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

Pauline Tully: 735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason self-employed people are not entitled to claim carer's benefit; if she will consider changing the eligibility criteria whereby self-employed people can claim carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12074/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...made by the many witnesses whose expertise and lived experience informed the committee's work, including teachers, psychologists, therapists and all the professionals who support the autistic community, the families and carers of autistic people and, most importantly, the autistic self-advocates who shared powerful insights with the committee in what was often a very challenging set of...

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

Pauline Tully: ...(UNCRPD) in 2007 and ratified the Convention in 2018, but has yet to ratify the Optional Protocol; — more than one in eight people over the age of 15 provide care, with approximately 500,000 family carers in the State, and that the majority experience barriers accessing respite services; — the commitment in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future to update the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: The witnesses identified the fact that there are insufficient carers in the community and we know that. Do we not need to see specially-trained carers with EB? If there is a changeover between carers at all, it means somebody starting from scratch not knowing the extent of the situation. We hear from the Department all the time that the money is available but the carers just are not. Is...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: I think it has been forwarded to the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly's, office as well. This motion also makes reference to the extreme shortage of carers for older people and disabled people. A woman in County Cavan, named Marilyn O'Connor, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease approximately two years and the condition has progressed quite rapidly in recent months. She felt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Carole Beattie and all the supporters of the Alzheimer's Society branch in Cavan for the work they do. I also want to acknowledge the work that both of the witnesses' organisations do to support carers and people with dementia. We are talking about supports for people with dementia and those who are caring for them. It can be a frightening time when somebody is first diagnosed with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 63 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to introduce a non-means tested, targeted cost-of-disability payment for the carers to autistic people and disabled people with high levels of expenditure due to their autism diagnosis or disability; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 65 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to increase the income disregard for disability allowance and carer’s allowance to account for the high costs of disability; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57312/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 66 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to recognise the work of carers and the services they provide the State by establishing a pilot scheme for a basic income entitlement or a participation income to replace the carer’s allowance, in line with the recommendations of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of establishing a one-stop-shop where autistic people and their families and carers can receive information and link in with services that they require. [51945/23]

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...hours. Hundreds of people experienced delayed transfer from acute settings as a result either of home care packages not being approved or of home care packages being approved but awaiting carer availability. There are no carers available to them because the Government has failed to plan for a sufficient workforce or to address long-term pay and condition issues. That has harmed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing persons in receipt of disability allowance, blind pension, carer's allowance or an invalidity pension to remain part of the free travel scheme if they return to employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46446/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...consider allowing persons in receipt of disability allowance or the blind pension to remain part of the free travel scheme if they return to employment and will make a statement on the matter? Carer's allowance and invalidity pension were mistakenly included in my original written question because of an oversight.

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...residential places are provided in response to an emergency and that is not fair on the individual because they are maybe trying to deal with a death or serious illness of their parent or primary carer and it is not their choice. They often end up, as was indicated by a Deputy, miles from family, maybe as a temporary measure in a respite centre, which has a knock-on effect on respite...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...that children will continue to wait too long for, and go without, the assessments and therapies they need, while young people with disabilities will remain inappropriately placed in nursing homes, and carers will continue to burnout without respite; notes that: — the Disability Capacity Review to 2032: A Review of Disability Social Care Demand and Capacity Requirements up to 2032...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...specialist team. We have more waiting for overdue assessments of needs. Respite is another service staffed by workers in section 39 organisations. Respite plays an essential role in supporting family carers and disabled people, yet three quarters of families are unable to get respite at all. There is now a significant and growing level of unmet need in respite care with fewer than 5,200...

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

Pauline Tully: ...on our hospitals, because the lack of alternatives in community care has left thousands of people in hospital longer than they should be. Many people cannot return home because there is not a carer in place to provide the care that they need once they return home from hospital. The issues confronting home care services come down to a failure of planning by the Government. Home...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...that there is a potential need for approximately 20,000 additional respite hours. The important word is "potential", because we do not know what is required. Deputy Collins referred to what Family Carers Ireland said at today's meeting of the Joint Committee on Autism. There is no audit of our respite requirements. It asked whether it was possible to have a register where family...