Results 1-20 of 31 for carers speaker:Gary Gannon

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

Gary Gannon: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion, which is incredibly important and timely. The Social Democrats fully support it. The motion recognises carers' invaluable contribution to society and highlights their mistreatment by the State, which is something that I hope we can work collectively, across the Chamber, to rectify. I echo the call to fully abolish the carer's allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the addition of young carers as a target group for educational supports, such as Tusla’s school completion programme, given the ESRI’s findings that young people who care for a relative are less likely to move on to higher education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (7 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 37. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he considers the €25 increase in the foster carer's payment announced in budget 2024, after a period of 14 years of no increases, to be reasonable, given inflation rates during that period, and the continuous decrease in the number of foster carers year after year. [46364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the progress being made towards creating a lifetime carer's pension scheme; if she will provide an update on the promised legislation surrounding this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15175/23]

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: I welcome this motion and commend Deputy Harkin for tabling it. It recognises carers’ invaluable contribution to society and highlights their mistreatment by the State, something I hope we can all come together in this Chamber to rectify. I echo the call made in the motion for an increase in the income disregard for the carer's allowance to €900 per week per household, or the...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...working age social welfare payments will be welcome and will put food on the table, it may fall short of the sea change needed to keep up with inflation. While every little helps, pensioners, people with disabilities, carers and Ione parents deserve a boost as much as, if not more, than anyone else in our society. Repeatedly paying out bonuses will not end this emergency. It keeps the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: 405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the progress being made towards creating a lifetime carer's pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6936/23]

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...it adopted were insufficient and not adequately targeted. It failed to broaden the eligibility for the fuel allowance. This means, for instance, families in receipt of the working family payment have no entitlement to the payment, nor do carers. It failed to increase core social welfare rates despite the fact core rates have increased by just a miserly €5 in three years. People...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Care Services (25 Jan 2022)

Gary Gannon: 442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on family carers being excluded from the recently announced payment of recognition of €1,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3601/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Care Services (25 Jan 2022)

Gary Gannon: 443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of providing family carers with a once-off payment of €1,000 in recognition of their work and hardship over the pandemic. [3602/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...testing for everybody in society for the excuse that was given by Minister for Health yesterday. People are cut to the bone. They cannot be expected to pay for antigen testing. Imagine being a carer in a one-parent family in this country. We need free antigen testing because it keeps everybody safe. Until I see the scheme, I will not retract the statement that Members are getting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Home Care Packages (10 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken regarding the staffing crisis in homecare service providers; her views on whether the decision to exclude home carers from the critical skills exemption is greatly exacerbating the problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55232/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for home carers who are not from the EEC to be able to work in the private nursing home sector but not the home care service sector; and if he has had engagement with the home care service sector regarding this issue. [55233/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (24 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 450. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made to date on reviewing and renewing the national carers’ strategy committed to in the programme for Government. [26433/21]

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...of euros annually - a point that cannot be overstated. The Pensions Commission is due to report to the Government at the end of this month. Included in its remit is the creation of a pension solution for carers. I sincerely hope that solution is one that ends the situation where understandable gaps in PRSI history or quirks in the means test often leave carers without any pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the annual carer's support grant from €1,850 to €2,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32487/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of making the carer's allowance a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Gary Gannon: 176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the income disregard for carer's allowance from €332.50 to €350 per week for a single person and to €700 for a couple; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (18 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date on addressing the pension gap for carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26233/21]