Results 1-20 of 73 for carers speaker:Verona Murphy

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

Verona Murphy: ...of this issue in the House since the failed referendum. I remind the House of the commitment of the former Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, that the Government will continue to increase payments to carers and people with disabilities. He also said that the Government would relax the means test and improve the home care tax credit. We need to follow up on that. We lauded carers. We even...

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

Verona Murphy: ...Rights of Persons with Disabilities? Why not give them the rights if we want to do something meaningful? If we want to spend €20 million, make it meaningful and remove the actual means testing for these carers who are in the home. We do not need wording in the Constitution. It does not matter because most of the carers are women. Nothing will change. That is the difference....

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

Verona Murphy: ...was no contact made. At 9 a.m. the following day, I went to the hospital with Rita and two of Caitlin's sisters, bearing in mind that Rita's husband, Caitlin's father, was lying at home with a carer with a terminal illness. This was August. He died in November. I am talking about the stress that was placed on this family and on Caitlin's sisters, Ciara and Orlaith, to keep her alive....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...my colleague brought up the fact that it was 13 months. If you have a 24-hour service, that number is what you put on a business card. I do not see how this is some great experience for a foster carer if they have to wait for an hour. They are working people; they are not just foster parents. An awful lot of backslapping has gone on here this morning. Given the number of issues I...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: What is your preference: residential units or foster carers?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: Despite that, it is frequent. There are foster carers who tell me that they have not had respite for years while fostering children who have profound needs related to autism. They also have not seen a social worker for years. Looking at parental supports, that is, prevention as opposed to cure, in her opening statement, Ms Duggan talked about the increased number of presentations Tusla is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carers allowance/benefit, including half carers payments, in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7084/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the carers respite grant in 2023 in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7085/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for carers allowance/benefit from residents in County Wexford in 2023; the number of those applications that were awarded and the number that were refused; the number of outstanding 2023 applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7086/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: I want to appeal to the Taoiseach's better nature on the means test relating to family carers, carer's allowance and half-rate carer's allowance. Statistics from Family Carers Ireland show that carers save the State €20 billion per annum. We are about to put a referendum to the people that lauds carers, and yet we are means testing 95,000 of them. We do not know what the cost of...

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)

Verona Murphy: ...the witnesses in policy formation, but is the Department involved in any review or reporting process to inform the Government as to whether or not we should host a means test for things like the carer's allowance? It must take up a significant amount of the Department's time.

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)

Verona Murphy: That is really where I am at. Will Mr. McKeon tell me the number of people who are in receipt of carer's allowance?

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)

Verona Murphy: ...I am getting at here is not encroaching on policy. Can we ascertain, as a committee, through a review by the Department, that the manpower involved in the means testing of 95,000 is worthwhile? Carers are, in effect, saving billions of euro for the State. Carers Ireland estimates that it is €20 billion per year. If it is €20 billion per year, are we saying it is...

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)

Verona Murphy: ...of their tether, and not being financially supported means that the system will come under pressure, not on the social protection side, but on the actual care side. What we are not giving them in carer's allowance we will end up paying out, as an Exchequer, through hospitalisation, fair deal or nursing home. It is basically that people are not prepared to do this any longer. For...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...wording proposes to insert a reference to family care in the Constitution. When the Government was formed in 2020, it produced the programme for Government and therein included a reference to a pension solution for carers. I have raised the pension rights of carers on this floor many times. We are three and half years into the lifetime of the Government. Although a limited pension...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...is not getting better. Removing the supports she currently has at home means that her sister's job is in jeopardy because she cannot do the night shift and work all day. The sister is her primary carer and is not in receipt of a carer's allowance. She has a full-time job with the HSE. We have to support these people. When Mr. Gloster says to me the governance in certain areas is the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 May 2023)

Verona Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance review initiated on 7 February 2023 for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26115/23]

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...I do not have time to go into them in detail, but I will highlight the second one. We call on the Government to "introduce a new integrated transport scheme for people with disabilities and their carers that ensures flexible arrangements that meet the needs of the individual and are in compliance with the Equal Status Acts". The key word there is "flexible". Too often, when dealing with...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...and show we are capable and many of us do that. That does not mean we have to put up with everything that comes our way. Yesterday, I attended a presentation in the audiovisual room given by young carers and young adult carers and I was moved to tears. For almost an hour I listened to four young people as young as 13 years of age up to one young man who was 19. They spoke about how...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...that there was a deliberate strategy to hold up the assessments of need. If we were to do 6,349 assessments, that would add pressure because most likely all of their parents would be eligible for carer's allowance and they would probably all go into autism units. There would also be pressure put on the CDNTs and CAMHS. It would not be beyond the realm of possibility that people would...