Results 1-20 of 24 for carers speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied). [8351/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On the basis of what she has just said to the House, I encourage the Minister to work with her Government colleagues on this issue, in particular for those people who applied for the carer's allowance several years ago, or up to a decade ago in some cases. Over that time, that person's partner may have had an increase in salary. Many of those people do not understand that it is a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (7 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown in tabular form of the amount of carer’s allowance applications that were appealed; and how many appeals were successful in the years: 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [5569/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...ones are the increase for a qualifying adult for people who are retired, whereby their partner might not have made PRSI contributions and they get their increase for a qualifying adult, and the carer's payment. Many people believe the carer's payment is not means-tested. There might be a ten-year period during which their own or their partner's economic circumstances change and there has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to make provision for pension contributions for foster carers where they are unable to take-up other employment due to their role as a foster carer. [54218/23]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...irresponsible. We have to continually monitor our financial position and the once-off measures are an important way for us to maintain that balance. I also want to thank the Minister for the measures taken for carers and providing a pension for those people who are caring. Many people contribute huge parts of their lives to care for people within their families and wider circles. It...

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

Paul McAuliffe: Both questions relate to the carer's allowance and means-testing. I am dealing with a huge number of reviews for the carer's allowance and they are being done in an incredibly intrusive way, with people being asked to submit bank statements. Instead of it being a qualification just on income grounds, they are being asked to produce bank statements, which are being returned with transactions...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (10 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the home carer tax credit to €2000 per annum. [44050/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Jul 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process used to select individuals for a review of carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32643/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes introduced to the carer's support grant since 27 June 2020; and if she will detail the number of recipients, by county, benefitting from these changes, in tabular form. [31128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes introduced to the half-rate carer's allowance since 27 June 2020; and if she will detail the number of recipients, by county, benefitting from these changes, in tabular form. [31138/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Today 125,000 carers across the State will receive the support grant of €1,850. This was announced by the Minister today. Contained in the press release was an announcement that the Government will put place measures to provide paid pension contributions for long-term carers who have been caring for more than 20 years. These are people who are saving the State money and who are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in examining options for a pension solution for carers, in recognition of the enormous value of the work carried out by them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24656/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews of carer's allowance that took place in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22186/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development
Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2021
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (30 Mar 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...of urban Dublin where there are significant levels of disadvantage. I cannot say there is not a strong commitment to those areas because only this week €47,000 was granted to support family carers to the Finglas Counselling Service, funding has been given to the national Rediscovery Centre, which is based in Ballymun, and the social inclusion and community activation programme,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...references from George Orwell to Dumbo, he will feature in Miriam Lord's column very soon. I thank the witnesses for being with us today. I have a few questions, the first of which is about how carers connect with supports that may or, in often cases, may not be available. From my experience, initial contact is through the public health nurse. What issues do the witnesses see with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...things like social welfare supports and the former respite care grant we have talked about. Often people do not know about those things. I am thinking about almost a Citizens Information for carers that is tailored to the interactions of carers when they present. As Mr. Dunne rightly said, it is not just the caring element but also the financial element that wears people down. When...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...support connection from the public health nurse structure might be of benefit? The public health nurse has a much wider remit, whereas somebody with a more specific focus on supporting family carers would have more time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...much as a collective industry - I am not suggesting they act as a cartel - that there are not the basic finances within the overall envelope to meet the demand. Effectively, we have professional carers operating on zero-hour contracts, despite that being prohibited under law. Furthermore, there is a common law obligation that any costs incurred in the course of carrying out one's...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: .... Some of the witnesses were more visible in the battle against Covid than others. That speaks to the hundreds of thousands of people in the HSE, in particular, those working in hospitals and as carers. I acknowledge that now that we have a little bit of distance from Covid, although it is far from over. I will be tougher than Deputy Murphy. I will not give the witnesses multiple...