Results 1-16 of 16 for carers speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s plans for a public awareness campaign to alert long-term carers to changes in their pension provisions under the provision of Social Welfare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52958/23]

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...some very valuable Members of Dáil Éireann who are beyond their 66th birthday and continue to make an excellent contribution here. I also welcome the provision made for a pension for carers who have been caring for 20 years or more. It shows them that the work they are putting into the caring economy, the caring society, is recognised and valued by the State. It is a small...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence (7 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...care purposes. It also includes five days' leave for the victims of domestic violence we are discussing this evening. It further includes the right to request flexible working for parents and carers and the right to request remote working for all employees. It also includes two years of breast-feeding breaks. If I talked about paternal leave, for example, there is something of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to discuss the Green Paper today. I welcome to the meeting Dr. Ronán Hession, assistant secretary, working age and family policy; Dr. Sarah Waters, principal officer, illness disability and carers policy; and Dr. Devesh Singh, chief medical officer. I invite Mr. Hession to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I second that. It is a positive move. It is great to see forward progress because Family Carers Ireland have had to fight a long time for what seems to everybody at this committee to be the right thing. I found the presentations really interesting and I apologise that I am going to be a little bit all over the map, because I have noted points along the way. I found a lot of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to a referendum we hope will help air these issues in a more public format. I thank Professor Murphy, Dr. Cullen and Mr. Gough of Maynooth University and Dr. Dunne, Ms Thyne and Ms Cox from Family Carers Ireland for their contributions. That concludes our public business.

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...we need to be having a discussion about universal basic income. We have seen a version of the universal basic income introduced under this Government for artists and maybe we should be looking at a universal basic income for carers so we are actually rewarding people who are operating within that caring economy. With regard to decarbonisation and the flip side to that, which is nature...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...society. This Bill adds momentum to that. In brief, it includes three measures: the right to request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes; the right to leave for medical purposes for carers and employees with children up to the age of 12; and the extension of the entitlement to breastfeeding and lactation breaks from six months to two years. We spoke earlier about how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...placements that helped those children achieve their full potential. Deputy Ó Cuív has dealt in length with the issues around the credits and the pension. I accept this is clearly not work foster carers do for money. If people make the decision to enter the foster caring system, they are clearly not motivated by profit. It was interesting for me to find out that I would not...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...that the identified site has secured planning permission from An Bord Pleanála for a different building project; (18) Deputy Martin Browne - to discuss the impact of the rising cost of living on family carers; and (19) Deputy Darren O'Rourke - to discuss with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the need to urgently expedite water infrastructure works in Ratoath,...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 Sep 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...at the Owenacurra Mental Health Centre, Midleton, County Cork; (20) Deputy Kathleen Funchion - to discuss the case of a woman (details supplied) approved for a home care package who cannot return from a nursing home because of the lack of carers; (21) Deputy Pearse Doherty - to discuss a State apology to the families of the Ballymanus mine disaster in County Donegal; (22) Deputy Martin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Family Carers Ireland (5 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...much of that will make its way into our final pre-budget submission. It is only right to say that, surely, of all the people affected in the pandemic, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Family Carers Ireland are voices for some of those who have been most affected. This is particularly the case with lone parents when they were trying to cope with home schooling and the effect it must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Family Carers Ireland (5 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a couple of questions, one of which is for Family Carers Ireland. We have mentioned the lifetime family carer's pension. Do the witnesses have figures on how many people would be affected? I have a question for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on fuel poverty. Does the society have any research or evidence on the energy ratings of the houses of the people we are talking about?...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...for people who have not only had a very difficult 2020 but may continue to face hardship well into 2021. They will support people living alone, low-income families, one-parent families and carers in receipt of grant support. There is a clear and targeted effort in the Bill to address the everyday inequality affecting people throughout Ireland. For example, a single parent with two...

Social Protection (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...it must also be about the protection of our society as a whole. In a parliamentary democracy the work of parliament is paramount. The Dáil must sit. When my next door neighbour is asked to go to her job as a carer each day, when my former student turns up to work at a shop counter each day, can I, as a Teachta Dála really sit at home and identify myself as a non-essential...