Results 1-8 of 8 for carers speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the level of means testing her Department is caring out on a family carer (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any additional supports available for carers who are put under physical strain when caring for a person who may require lifting, for example financial aid for physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...if she will review the carer’s allowance payment to include an additional option for the allowance to be paid based on the needs of the person requiring the care and not based on the means of the carers and their spouse, where the applicant falls outside the limit of the means test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27992/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that workers on the front line providing essential services to persons with disabilities and their carers in section 39 organisations under the Health Act 2009 will receive the proposed once-off, tax free €1,000 bonus payment for front-line workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5089/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (18 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 316. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the lack of available home support service carers in an area (details supplied); the number of persons in the area who have been approved for home support but whose service has not commenced due to lack of carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56670/21]

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...with the amendment and would not want to see protections afforded to front-line workers, who have been running our essential services throughout the pandemic, many of whom are in low-paid jobs as carers, cleaners and have been keeping our supermarkets open, at the tills and stacking the shelves. I do not think a single Deputy in this House would not support the limited protections of this...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Covid-19 infection. They face worse health outcomes, more severe illness and the possibility of hospitalisation and mortality. They have a higher incidence of underlying conditions. We are talking about carers, people who work in meat plants, cleaners and migrant workers. These are the very people who are over-represented in the private rental sector. Many of these front-line workers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (20 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the home carer's scheme will be extended to those born before 1 September 1946; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6982/20]