Results 1-20 of 58 for carers speaker:Dara Calleary

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Care Services (14 Jun 2022)

Dara Calleary: 1147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider improving measures within the social welfare system to support existing foster carers and to encourage additional foster carers such removing the 20 year cap on homecare provision for foster carers, changes in the contributory pension to allow for periods spent fostering to count towards a state...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (14 Jun 2022)

Dara Calleary: ...for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will comment on Tusla’s preparations for the introduction of the child abuse substantiation procedure; the number of foster carers who have received training on the issue as of 8 June 2022; the training that is planned; if the introduction date of 27 June 2022 is still proceeding given the lack of training to date; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (14 Jun 2022)

Dara Calleary: ..., Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the different procedures in place across different Tusla regions in relation to a number of issues affecting foster carers including issues such as therapy provision and dental care provision; if he will engage with Tusla to ensure standardisation at the higher level of service to foster children and their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Dara Calleary: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth if he has had or intends to have engagement with the Minister for Social Protection around issues within the social welfare system to support existing foster carers and to encourage additional foster carers, including removing the 20 year cap on homecare provision for foster carers, changes in the State pension (contributory) system to allow for periods...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service (31 Mar 2022)

Dara Calleary: ..., the problem was getting hours for a home care service, particularly for home help. Now the problem is getting people to service those hours. Many families are given the hours but cannot get the carers. We need to make sure there is no loss of service as we move to this new structure. I welcome the HSE commitment and the programme for Government commitment but I always fear that when...

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Dara Calleary: ...pension statement so they will know early on what their pension will be when they come to retirement so that they can engage with it at that stage. I welcome the focus the committee put on the issue of family carers and other carers. In the context of what family carers save the health budget and, more importantly, the non-financial contribution they make, it is only the decent thing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Dara Calleary: 355. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether home helps and carers have done extraordinary work during the pandemic and have been patient facing at all times; and his views on whether they should be awarded the Covid bonus payment. [4096/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...are passed on, especially to those on limited incomes who avail of the fuel allowance. That is the biggest challenge facing so many homeowners and households at present. I welcome many things in the Bill, especially the new and very direct focus on carers. I acknowledge there are many good changes around that. Again, let this not be the final debate on social protection. There is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: We touched on the changes to the means test for carer's allowance earlier and I wish to probe those further. How many extra will qualify and how many extra existing carers will qualify for the increased payment the Minister referred to earlier? Given the crisis in caring at present with regard to getting people into caring, has the Department any plans to promote these changes?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: There was a great deal of information in that. I acknowledge that substantial changes have been made for carers, particularly with the carer's allowance. I welcome those but to quote a phrase that was previously used in these premises, "A lot done. More to do.". The work that carers are doing is extraordinary, particularly at present when it is very difficult for people to get carers even...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the large void in the number of carers presently available to the HSE to carry out home help services; his views on whether the suspension of necessary study courses due to Covid-19 has restricted the number of new entrants into the home help system; if he will examine the possibility of allowing dispensations from certain...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...lady who minds her adult daughter who has additional needs and early stage dementia. She could not find a residential place for her daughter and has taken her home again, for which she is getting carer's allowance. Because she is getting carer's allowance, she is now losing her fuel allowance at the age of 81 after a lifetime of care and commitment to the community. There are so many...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (28 Sep 2021)

Dara Calleary: 830. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a submission from an organisation (details supplied) in relation to Budget 2022; and if he will prioritise family carers and carers in his discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. [46776/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (15 Sep 2021)

Dara Calleary: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the implementation plan for funding the carer’s guarantee funding before the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Jul 2021)

Dara Calleary: 315. To ask the Minister for Finance the provisions or options that exist for a sibling who was also primary carer in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39814/21]

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...important and it should be facilitated and made easier where it can be done. We are lucky to have extraordinary people providing home help throughout the country. The role played by home help providers, carers and palliative care nurses, co-ordinated by an amazing team of public health nurses and district nurses, is vital. However, many families are left trying to put together the...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Dara Calleary: ..., will the Minister clarify the situation of those who are housebound? Are arrangements in place or are we still putting those arrangements together? I welcome the commitment today on family carers and bringing them up the list. Will the Minister confirm that as well?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Feb 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...with Covid. I welcome the changes in the vaccination programme the Minister announced last night, which will see people with certain conditions moved up the list. I note again the role of family carers. I accept that if somebody moves up the queue, someone else must move down. However, the role of family carers in guarding against illness and doing unrecognised work to protect the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Dara Calleary: 610. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to issuing a pandemic extension to carer's leave for persons that were on carer’s leave prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly given the impact on vulnerable persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9794/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Carer's Leave (4 Feb 2021)

Dara Calleary: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to extending carer's leave to persons that were on carer’s leave prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic to allow them an additional 12 months to cover from March 2020 to March 2021 given the vaccine has not yet been administered to elderly persons; and if he will...