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

Seán Crowe: The biggest concern expressed to me by older carers, but not exclusively, relates to who will look after their loved ones when they are gone. They go to bed worrying about what will happen if something happens to them, and they probably wake up in the morning with the same nagging question. Things may have improved but most of us accept we have a long road to go. A constitutional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is to engage with representatives from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Family Carers Ireland on the health needs of persons with dementia and the services available to them. I am pleased to welcome from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland Mr. Andy Heffernan, chief executive officer, Ms Clodagh Whelan, advocacy manager, and Dr. Laura O'Philbin, research and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Heffernan. I invite Mr. Dunne to make opening remarks on behalf of Family Carers Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Crowe: I was a little surprised when we asked about respite to hear that people still preferred respite at home. You would imagine, particularly for carers, that it would be life-changing and transforming for them to get a week off, but they do not want to leave.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Crowe: ..., that may be something the committee could follow up with the Minister, as part of the information that needs to get out to ordinary people. I thank the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Family Carers Ireland for their engagement with the committee. I particularly thank the witnesses and their organisations for the work they do in our communities every day of the year. They carry out...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...pay agreement for workers in the nursing home and home care sectors to ensure a living wage. We would establish the commission on care, which would modernise the care sector and better align care, including family carers, care in the home, nursing home and residential care, and palliative care. If we do not act now, we create a huge problem now and for the future. Ireland has an ageing...

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

Seán Crowe: ...want to hear what we are actually going to do. We need to start delivering for these families. The State is estimated to have saved €20 billion on an annual basis due to the 500,000 family carers who provide unpaid care each day to those living with disability or illness. We need to do more.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...facing ordinary workers and their families. The Government must commit to payment of a spring bonus for those relying on working-age social welfare payments, including pensioners, people with disabilities, carers and lone parents. They are the people who are impacted at the moment by all these large bills. The Minister needs to wake up and smell what is happening in our country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Integrated Eye Care: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Crowe: .... The example was given of Johnny and his wife. We all know someone who fits into that category. Deputy Gino Kenny spoke about one of his constituents. I remember dealing with a man who was a carer. He would not have been as old as Johnny in the example given in the slide presentation, who was 77. The man with whom I dealt was caring for his wife. He could only see shadows. He...

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Seán Crowe: ...the national waiting list is waiting for a test in the Tallaght centre. It is equivalent to the population of a town. Something needs to be done. Will she address the situation regarding family carers, for instance? They are not seen as essential workers by the Government but it is essential for many family carers to have a car and to be able to access the test. Will the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Seán Crowe: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to adding full-time carers to the vaccination schedule; and the reason for their initial exclusion given the vulnerable persons who rely on them. [3034/21]

Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (4 May 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...-old girl travelled to Ireland to work for a diplomat’s family, having been told she would be allowed to work part time and pursue her studies. However, on arrival she found she would be required to be the sole carer of a child with severe special needs. Her day apparently started at 5.30 a.m. and her employer assaulted her when she asked to use the phone to call her family. This...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (25 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will confirm that the appeal for a carer's allowance has been successful for a person (details supplied); if so, when the appeal was resolved; the length of time it took from the original application to be resolved, including the appeal period; and when the person involved in the action will be reimbursed and begin to finally access the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (25 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for a successful applicant for carer's allowance to receive their allowance; and the average waiting time for an applicant to receive their allowance and be reimbursed following a successful appeal. [3372/17]

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: ...huge difficulties which are being experienced every day. Constituents have to wait staggering lengths of time for benefit claims to be processed. One constituent had to wait more than eight months to be awarded carer's allowance. She needed to give up work to look after her father who had bowel cancer and she faced severe financial difficulties as a result of the long delay....

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Seán Crowe: ...to implement this inhumane cut, but hurray, there is a general election looming and I welcome its reinstatement. The grant has been described as the difference between sanity and insanity for carers, between carrying on and being burnt out. There is nothing in the budget for young jobseekers. In our alternative budget we called on the Government to invest €72 million to...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Crowe: .... I again take this opportunity to urge the Minister to abandon her plans to lower the cut-off age to seven next July. I call for the deletion of section 3, which concerns eligibility for caring payments, such as the carer's allowance, the carer's benefit and the respite care grant. The Government presented this as a benign change of a technical nature but FLAC, the independent law...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...there is a need to go against the natural human instinct to comfort a person in distress. For example, if someone is crying, the instinct is to go to them and put one's arms around them. The carers are dying because they are close to the victims. I refer to the fear associated with this virus. I remember the attitude in Dublin to HIV-AIDS when those who died were being buried in...