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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Jerry Buttimer: ...today to outline the reason the date of 8 March 2024 was set for the holding of the referendum on the 39th and 40th amendments to the Constitution, which is in advance of a Supreme Court appeal on carers, to be heard on 11 April." Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (5 Oct 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...the end of each academic year. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the measures in place to recruit and retain foster carers. Senator Rónán Mullen - The need for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the work of the Interdepartmental...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (4 Oct 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the measures in place to recruit and retain foster carers. Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee - The need for the Minister for Finance to allow for the exemption of land being used for agricultural or horticultural purposes from the residential...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (28 Sep 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ..., CHO, 4 area. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the measures in place to recruit and retain foster carers. Senator Seán Kyne - The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the roll-out of Westdoc services to Moycullen and Oughterard, County Galway. Of the matters...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (11 May 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...on partners attending antenatal and scan appointments and post-birth visits. Senator Maria Byrne - The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on plans to increase the supply of home carers to meet care hours demands. Senator Tim Lombard - The need for the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works to provide an update on conservation works and...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Apr 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: ...That needs to be addressed at local level on the ground. The priorities in the document we have, action on which will be enabled by the Bill, concern the key role of respite in supporting family carers in enhancing service. While these are wonderful, aspirational words, I have some questions. Is there a lowballing of the numbers being provided for? Are they too low? Are we missing...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Mar 2022)

Jerry Buttimer: ...commend Averil Power and her team on the work they do. Today is also an auspicious day. In the audiovisual room we saw the launch of the home care providers alliance. For the first time all the carers organisations have come together to form an alliance. I ask the Acting Leader to facilitate a debate with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on carers and on the need for the State to...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (16 Dec 2021)

Jerry Buttimer: ...looking after these businesses. It is an important industry that provides thousands of jobs. I support the work being done by my colleague, Deputy Colm Burke, in the Lower House on the issue of carers, including home carers. As the Minister knows, the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, yesterday launched a review of how home care was commissioned and delivered. I have...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Dec 2020)

Jerry Buttimer: ...island allowance, as Senator Lombard mentioned, and the widowed or surviving civic partner grant have increased. There has been a reduction in waiting times for illness benefit, an increase in the carer's support grant and the working family payment threshold and a removal of the one-parent family earnings limit. This was all done by a Government and party that is supposed to be against...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: .... In addition, it is important to recognise the work we have been doing in terms of the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Disability allowance and carers' allowance were increased in the budget of last year. I refer also to the disability inclusion strategy and additional money being put into budgets of respite care, along with the home carer...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: ...in Cork city two days a week. He said that it is two days when he does not worry about his wife because he knows she is well looked after and it is a break for him. These facilities give carers peace of mind. I agree with the Senator that we should plan for the future, which we have not been very good at doing.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Conway-Walsh raised the issue of carers and the protest. I agree with the Senator that no carer should have to protest. We do not take carers for granted. They are providing a service to people across the country. I refer the Senator to the changes made in the budget in terms of the 15 to 18.5 hours work in respect of which 1 million extra care hours were provided. As I said...

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (26 Jun 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: ...not Government; it is beyond our shores. Now is the time for sound budgetary operations where we invest, as Senator Dolan rightly said, in public services and where we can benefit those who are most in need, whether it is the carer, the person with a disability or those who need respite care. In this context, disability must be an important part of the budget we frame in October. We...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: ...some people leaving. This morning, however, 16 members contributed on the Order of Business and eight have already left. Senators Horkan, Conway-Walsh and Gallagher raised the important issue of carers. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Jim Daly, the senior Minister, Deputy Harris, and the Government are committed to ensuring that the HSE will deliver its service...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: ...investment in primary care in tandem with investment in respite care. Respite care is an important piece of the health budget. I concur that funding should be made available to families who are carers. There is a significant deficit in funding for respite care that needs to be filled.As Senator Conway-Walsh said, members of families are 24-7 carers for loved ones for 365 days of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I join Senator Murnane O'Connor in commending all involved in carer's week and thank carers for their important work. I commend Senator Swanick on his loneliness task force. I think responsibility in this area is under the remit of the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, at the Department of Health but I am happy to be corrected if I am incorrect. It is important that we work collectively...

Committee on Public Petitions: Nursing Home Casebook: Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall (30 May 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The reason I ask is if we are looking at an alternative model of care in the context of nursing homes and the single unified model, we should look at how home help hours are allocated and what the carer or home help does. It is a conversation we also need to have.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: ...affairs, I know that such incidents are rare. In saying that, where there are people opening their homes and offering children in need a place to receive love and care, it is important that foster carers be above reproach. I will watch the programme tonight and, if necessary, we will have the appropriate Minister come to the House to discuss the issue. The case in question was referred...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: ...I completely agree. In the forthcoming budget it is absolutely important that the emerging fruits of the economy are spent on people in a way that has tangible benefits and, in particular, for carers, whether family members or paid carers, and also those who require respite care, as mentioned by the Senator. There is an absolute need for further investment in that area. I know from...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: ...in which there would be no voices from the North being heard in the European Union, be it in the Parliament or elsewhere. We should consider the suggestion. Senator Mulherin raised the issue of carers and mentioned a specific case. The issue of transferring credits in this case should be considered. Given the large volume of legislation next week, the Senator might consider submitting...