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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Feb 2024)

David Cullinane: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of each month of each year 2019-2023, inclusive; the breakdown by length of wait, in tabular form. [7303/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: I will certainly look into it and see what can be done. Over the past number of years we have tried to improve the financial position of carers. We have increased the carer support grant which is not means tested. We relaxed the means test for the carer's allowance, increased it and extended free GP care to anyone in receipt of the carer's allowance. We will strive to continue on that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...diagnosis is fraught with challenges. The lack of specific knowledge and expertise often leads to significant delays in receiving proper treatment, thereby placing a heavy burden on families and carers. Many rare diseases emerge early in life with a staggering 30% of the children affected passing away before their fifth birthday although many cases are not identified until much later. ...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Berry: .... We want Irish tourists staying in Ireland for their holidays rather than going to Spain and Portugal. The second recommendation is about eliminating the welfare traps, as we mentioned. Someone on the working family payment or carer's allowance can only work 18 or 19 hours a week. I was at a company in Clane on Friday that is offering contracts from 18 to 19 hours up to 26 hours a...

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

Heather Humphreys: ...of my department is to provide income support where an income need arises because of a particular contingency – be that illness, disability, caring or unemployment. The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. Spending in 2024 is expected to amount...

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

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel scheme provides free travel on the main public transport services provided by the State, and some private transport services, for those eligible under the scheme. Currently, applicants who are under 66 must be in receipt of a qualifying payment in order to qualify for the scheme. The qualifying payments for those aged under 66 are Invalidity Pension, Blind Pension (or...

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

Heather Humphreys: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and attention....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Marian Harkin: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the most recent figure on the number of carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, excluding those on a half-rate carer’s allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer’s allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 caring for one person, aged under 66 caring for...

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

Heather Humphreys: The Roadmap for Social Inclusion contains a commitment to develop a benchmarking approach for use in adjusting the value of State pension payments. The approach proposed by the Department, known as the smoothed earnings approach, was subsequently endorsed by the Pensions Commission. Government subsequently decided that the Department of Social Protection would, in submitting budget...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Feb 2024) See 5 other results from this answer

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]

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Wall: ...welcome to our distinguished visitors. Given the good news the Minister has brought forward in respect of those in full-time education up to the age of 18, I will again raise the issue of foster carers. I know the Minister announced in the budget an additional payment of €75 for foster carers, €25 of which came into place from 1 January. Given the good news in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

...never forget how they heard it and their families will never forget how they died. Both for the patients and for the people involved, as in an individual who is dying and who dies, and the family carers who are those they know and trust around them, all have a spirituality which is their own. People see spiritually genuinely in art, music-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Gary Gannon: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the addition of young carers as a target group for educational supports, such as Tusla’s school completion programme, given the ESRI’s findings that young people who care for a relative are less likely to move on to higher education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal on behalf of a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6081/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the progress to date in determining an application for carers allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6485/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

John McGuinness: 452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the payment of carers allowance and arrears due will be made immediately in the case of a person (details supplied). [6548/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Payments (13 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...often be short-term and that legislating for all possible scenarios would be impractical, it was decided that six months represents a reasonable ‘lead-in’ time before the transfer of Child Benefit to a foster carer, as appropriate.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Ozempic supply interruption for healthcare professionals and patients - glp1-ra-shortage-clinical-advice-ncpd-01112023.pdf (hpra.ie). I recognise that medicine shortages can be challenging for patients, carers, healthcare professionals and their teams. Based on shortages notified to the HPRA, this matter has been the subject of engagement across Health Service stakeholders. Where at all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (13 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: 606. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of recommendation No. 7 of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants; if he will consider establishing a joint labour committee to cover the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6581/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...an illness called functional neurological disorder, FND. She has limb paralysis in both legs and in her left arm. She suffers from extreme pain and seizures. She has been turned down for home carer hours by the HSE on two grounds. The first is that, at 28, she has not reached the age of 65 and is therefore not eligible. The second ground is that her illness is not recognised. The HSE...