Results 1-20 of 50 for carers speaker:Patricia Ryan

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

Patricia Ryan: ...people, I am delighted to take the opportunity to speak in support of this motion. I thank the Regional Group for bringing it before the House. In data compiled by the Central Statistics Office, a carer is defined as someone who provides unpaid assistance to others. Almost 500,000 people, women, men and incredible children under 15 years of age, are carers. These people spend their...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...our guests. I know we have been speaking about pensions and older people. I note that the guests spoke with Deputy Aindrias Moynihan about pensions and the three cores. Initially, that involved carers and so on. Do the witnesses agree that the current State pension level, which stands at approximately €277 per week, needs to be brought up to at least €338 per week, which...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Tully for her work on this Private Members' motion. I welcome Shane Scanlan of the nursing homes alliance to the Gallery this evening. People with disabilities and their carers deserve so much better than the raw deal the Government is currently giving them. These people already deal with so many difficulties in their daily lives. They need access to supports and services,...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ..., I believe it is the unsung heroines that International Women's Day is intended to celebrate. We must celebrate the women whose work is largely invisible and hugely undervalued. While only one in six women is a carer, these women still provide 98% of full-time unpaid care to elderly family members, sick or disabled adult family members, and children and adults with special needs, to...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...been left in need of services. Waiting lists have got worse and people are not able to access services at all. For example, in my constituency of Kildare South, one poor woman in her 80s, who is the sole carer for her severely disabled son who is himself in his 50s, in absolute desperation contacted me for help. My staff and I had to fight tooth and nail to get a hoist to help her lift...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...on the private sector for care provision, no right, as of yet, for a care partner and insufficient housing adaptation funding. I am dealing with a lady in my constituency who has been waiting for a carer for eight weeks. She is down to about 3 stone and has nobody to look after her. It is a disgrace. The Minister has been in government in one capacity or another for the past 12...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, with regard to applications for carer’s allowance benefit, she will clarify the reason people already in receipt of another social welfare payment are cut off from receiving that payment immediately from the date of their application for the carer’s allowance, as carer’s allowance applications are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...has been diagnosed with cancer and is simply unable to continue. My office team and I are contacted regularly by older people who have been granted care that has not been fulfilled or where if a carer is out sick, the family must step up at short notice. When my office contacted the HSE and the Minister, the silence was palpable. Older people are struggling with many issues. It is time...

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

Patricia Ryan: ...;s allowance, she acknowledges that this would exclude most part-time jobs or part-time course, as these usually are minimum 20 hours per week; if the 18.5 hours limit could be increased to allow for carers to take up part-time work or to upskill with part-time courses. [43098/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason appeals for refusal of carer’s allowance are currently taking many months to process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40811/23]

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...I very much appreciate that, but I am not asking when the meeting will take place; I am asking when we are going to have the delivery of the implementation of the programme. Waiting lists for carers are 25% longer in rural areas, so I am delighted both Ministers of State are here. In my constituency, there is an 89-year-old lady who is caring for her 59-year-old son who has profound...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I wish to speak on behalf of approximately 500,000 family carers who tirelessly provide indispensable at-home care across the State. These unpaid and unsung heroes save the State billions annually through the care they provide for their loved ones without receiving the support they not only need but deserve. HSE essential respite services, which are a vital lifeline for our family carers,...

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

Patricia Ryan: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that can be taken to provide welfare payments to people who are changing from one type of payment to another for example jobseeker’s to carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21017/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Apr 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 369. To ask the Minister for Health how many people who have been granted funding are on waiting lists for a carer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18668/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE home help carers in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10477/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be reached on the application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied). [5775/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for applications for carer’s allowance; the number of persons awaiting a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63713/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Patricia Ryan: ...food banks, which is a disgrace. While there are good people working in our social welfare system, there is far too much red tape. All of the application forms need to be reviewed. The form for carer's allowance, for example, is 40 pages long. The whole system needs to be streamlined. Applications for disability allowance are taking three months to process. There are huge backlogs...

Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Patricia Ryan: ...this needs to change. While the crisis is bad now, there is a ticking time bomb of demographics. When I met with the national community care network, I was told that the average age of its 3,000 carers is 60 years of age. I have spoken to individual carers. They are overworked and underpaid and they feel undervalued. We must make home care an attractive career option with...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Patricia Ryan: ...workers provide and the HSE's overreliance on private home care providers must also be dealt with. The HSE spends €20 million a year on home care support. It should be directly employing these carers and ensuring they have good pay, good conditions, pensions and a clear career path. In the past few weeks, I met the National Community Care Network and Family Carers Ireland....