Results 1-19 of 19 for carers speaker:Mairead Farrell

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Nov 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will offer advice to a person who has reached the limit of their eligibility for carer’s benefit and does not qualify for carer’s allowance, but cannot return to work as they are still needed to act as a carer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52446/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of applications for carer’s allowance and carer's benefit; the number of applications waiting at present, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to allowing increased mortgage costs as part of the means test for carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider adjusting the means test for the carer's allowance in order that reasonable mortgage repayments for the primary residence would be subtracted from the applicant's overall means; if she will consider taking the number of dependants in a household into account as part of the means test for carer's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to allow increased mortgage repayments, due to higher interest rates, to be factored into the means test in relation to carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49361/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...We see a €12 increase in core social welfare rates. That is inadequate and adds little to an already inadequate social protection scheme. The sum of €12 does not protect from inflation. It does not even come close. It does not protect people from poverty, and it does not recognise the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on those reliant on fixed incomes. The fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Jun 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 1901. To ask the Minister for Health the categories of carers that will receive the pandemic special payment; the date they are scheduled to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30688/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 May 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the policy of joint tenancy in local authority housing with the view to include the full-time carers of tenants who also qualify for housing support in their own right; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27361/22]

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...of the recognition payment made to specified categories of front-line healthcare workers up to a maximum of €1,000 per individual. However, as I said, many who worked on the front line appear to have been left behind. Family carers have been to the forefront in this pandemic and should be included in this payment. I have spoken to many carers who are bitterly disappointed that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...mentioned yesterday, was that many of those excluded would benefit from the additional bank holiday. I will tell the Minister who will not benefit from an additional bank holiday: the thousands of carers in this State who do not get a day off. Will the Minister explain why he excluded carers from receiving this bonus?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Mairead Farrell: Carers lost everything during the pandemic. They lost their day services and respite, including their unofficial respite in the form of help from grandparents and other family members when we were all told to isolate, keep apart and stay in our homes. As for the parents of children in special schools, even those schools for children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities closed....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Mairead Farrell: I am specifically asking the Minister why he decided to exclude carers from this bonus. We know there was a real-life impact on the lives of family carers. Many carers approached me, as I am sure they did the Minister, during the course of the pandemic to explain just how difficult the loss of services had been for them and not only how hard it was for them then but how it has had a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mairead Farrell: ...or a car crash where the sums involved can be huge. The costs of advisers and the trust itself can be negligible relatively speaking. However, where the parents might themselves be dependent on carer's allowance, putting what they can aside each month, the costs involved in this kind of financial planning, retaining professionals, and the trust itself are a massive problem for people. I...

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Mairead Farrell: ...electricity bills. This should not be happening. The State should ensure its citizens do not experience cold due to affordability. Heating is a basic need and it is life critical. I spoke to one carer in Galway city who assists many elderly people across the city. The very difficult and upsetting reality is that a lot of elderly people to whom she calls stay in one room in the house,...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Mairead Farrell: ...screening and diagnosis. We would also provide an additional €12 million to deliver on the national cervical screening laboratory. Our vision for universal healthcare is in line with other European states. It sees healthcare as a human right and not a privilege. It is something to be delivered on the basis on needs rather than means. My colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty,...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Mairead Farrell: ...and preventing the mass immiseration of people. However, many feel they have been completely forgotten during this pandemic, such as the people who have gathered outside this building on Kildare Street and on Merrion Square; the taxi drivers who protested outside yesterday; the Debenhams workers, about whom we had a robust debate earlier; carers and many others. We are in extraordinary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (30 Jul 2020)

Mairead Farrell: 785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for a carer's allowance as of 17 July 2020. [19683/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (14 Jul 2020)

Mairead Farrell: ...feedback from user groups such as a group (details supplied) to hold the HSE accountable for the satisfactory outcome of its plan; and the way in which the State can better support the thousands of carers and their loved ones who are now facing stress and frustration while the adult disability day services are not fully resumed. [15352/20]