Results 1-20 of 25 for carers speaker:Niall Collins

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: ...support programmes available in their areas, provided by Tusla, the HSE and their partners in the community and voluntary sectors. All of these services are aimed at supporting parents and carers to be more confident and capable in their parenting role, helping to achieve the best outcomes for children and families.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Niall Collins: ...a full restoration of maintenance grants for postgraduate students. Importantly, for the first time ever, fees for undergraduate part-time studies will now also be fully funded, thus benefittng eligible one-parent families, students with disabilities, and carers on low incomes as part of a brand-new pilot programme. As the committee will recognise, the further and higher education sector...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse (22 Jun 2023)

Niall Collins: ...this area in recent years to assist with the reporting of child sexual exploitation. These developments include the following. Tusla implemented its child exploitation procedure in 2021, in partnership with An Garda Síochána, which provides Tusla staff and carers with information on how to recognise indicators of child sexual exploitation, how to make appropriate referrals and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (2 Feb 2023)

Niall Collins: .... The specific issue raised by the Deputy also came up as part of that discussion and the point was correctly made that an employment regulation order is also needed for people who work as home carers. This key element is lacking in making this a viable career and option for people to go into work where they will have certainty in this regard. This point was also made on that call with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (2 Feb 2023)

Niall Collins: ...Department of Health with special responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy Butler, established a strategic workforce advisory group to address the challenges of recruitment and retention of home carers and nursing home healthcare assistants. The Government has published its findings and the implementation of the advisory group's recommendations has commenced. Since...

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Niall Collins: ...a disability getting the living alone increase; a €500 cost-of-living lump sum payment to all families getting a working family payment; a double payment of child benefit to support all families with children; a €500 cost-of-living payment for people receiving a carer's support grant, which will be paid in November; a €500 lump sum cost-of-living disability support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (5 Oct 2021)

Niall Collins: ...2 of the Student Grant Scheme 2021. There are over 40 eligible long-term social welfare payments prescribed in the Student Grant Scheme that include such payments as the One Parent Family Payment, Carer's Allowance, Disability Allowance, Farm Assist and Jobseekers Allowance and Benefit where held for a specified period of time. A student may qualify for the special rate of grant...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (26 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: ...and the HSE to follow up on the Senator's requests. We appreciate that Parkinson's disease is a debilitating condition and fully acknowledge that it is a worrying time for patients, families and carers, as Senator O'Reilly outlined in his remarks. I hope for all concerned that a final decision on this reimbursement application is reached shortly. It is important to note, however, that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (26 Oct 2017)

Niall Collins: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending social protection supports to the self-employed in a full calendar year and permitting such persons to opt into the existing class A structure broken down by costs of extending, invalidity, illness, jobseeker’s and carer’s benefit based on the 2015 actuarial review of the social insurance...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Niall Collins: ...to do so, to purchase equipment and, hopefully if they can be found, hire extra doctors to help. If hospitals are to have any hope of lessening the trolley crisis, we need to increase funding to home help, to carers and to nursing homes so that vulnerable people have somewhere safe to go on discharge. If we are to keep people out of hospitals, we need more access to physiotherapy ... to...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Niall Collins: ...the perverse situation where large numbers of people with disabilities are having their entitlement to a medical card reassessed. That exercise is causing massive fear and anxiety. At the same time, carers are being penalised by way of the savage 20% reduction in the respite grant implemented last year, which places them under even more pressure. Having a legal framework in place is a...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Niall Collins: ...of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, will know there are independent appeals processes for every State-backed scheme. There is an independent social welfare appeals mechanism, including for jobseeker's, carer's and domiciliary carer's allowance and for medical cards. We have the Office of the Ombudsman and if one goes through the planning process, there is an independent appeals mechanism....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (22 Jan 2013)

Niall Collins: 342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [2539/13]

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: Blame the Labour Party when it is on the backs of carers. Is that it?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (6 Nov 2012)

Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [48377/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 Oct 2012)

Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43199/12]

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Sep 2012)

Niall Collins: ...organisations who have never been vetted. Unfortunately, such people would have to be vetted in order to achieve child safety, and that will be a major undertaking. There is also the issue of foster carers. The HSE has publicly indicated that up to 12.5% of foster carers are still in the process of being vetted, which is extremely serious. HIQA has indicated that vetting is a major...

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [33261/12]

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (19 Jun 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 381: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [29573/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (1 May 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21397/12]