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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: This is an absolute disgrace. If anybody looking on or listening to this ever doubted the contempt with which disabled citizens and carers are held in this country, here is the evidence. This is the proof of it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Lisa Chambers: ...may be shared, all other Senators not to exceed five minutes and the Minister to be given no less than ten minutes to reply to the debate; and No. 128(7), Private Member's business, motion regarding family carers, to be taken at 5 p.m., with the time allocated to this debate not to exceed two hours.

Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care.CA had been in payment for the person concerned since 6 January 2011. The overpayment amount in this case refers to an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Jan 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...and strategies and a shared commitment to supporting positive health and wellbeing outcomes in community and healthcare settings for the public, health service staff, patients, their families and carers, as well as the development of creativity and the arts more broadly. Working with the Creative Ireland Programme, the HSE and the Arts Council, a range of initiatives have been funded to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...and the double payment that 1.3 million people received this week. This is really welcome. It was part of the budget package to help people with the cost of living. People such as pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and people on low incomes received a double payment this week. That is really welcome. It is a huge boost for them and their communities, because we...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...and the economy. My Department’s Estimate contains provision of €1.011 billion for Tusla, which is broadly in line with the 2023 Supplementary allocation, which was significantly increased during 2023. This funding will allow Tusla to improve support for foster carers through an increase in the weekly foster care allowance rate for the first time since 2009. This year, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Jan 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...these who opted for joint assessment is not readily available in the data available for analysis. Furthermore, of the 1.9 million taxpayer units, 50,000 taxpayer units claimed the Single Person Child Carer Credit.I am further advised by Revenue that, apart from those availing of specific child related reliefs, it is not possible to accurately determine, from the available data, the number...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to amend the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme to allow non-blood recipients of carer's allowance to be eligible to apply for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4323/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Canney: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the review process by which carers are having their carers allowance reviewed and the invasive nature of the information being requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4092/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...Supplementary Welfare Allowance (BASI) 1 Maternity Benefit 6 Paternity Benefit 6 Parent's Benefit 1 Carer's Allowance 5 Carer's Benefit 4 Disability Allowance 10 Invalidity Pension 11 Illness Benefit 1...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any additional supports available for carers who are put under physical strain when caring for a person who may require lifting, for example financial aid for physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4143/24]

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: ..., ensure compliance with law and support best practice in governance, management and administration. As I said earlier, the issue we have here, especially with organisations like Meals On Wheels, community councils, community carers and community alerts, is that they are all organisations run by volunteers. It does not matter what age they are; they are still volunteers who are giving of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Alan Dillon: I want to bring to focus the role of young family carers. A recently published ESRI report highlighted the challenges faced by young people who are overburdened in their role as carers for parents, siblings or close relatives. The story of a 17-year-old student from the west of Ireland who helps her six-year-old non-verbal autistic brother was highlighted in the report. The young girl...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...The eligibility payments are for those in receipt of fuel allowance, jobseeker's allowance for more than six months, working family payment, one-parent family payment, domiciliary care allowance, carer's allowance where the recipient is living with the person they are caring for, and disability allowance for more than six months, or where they have a child under seven years of age. That...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...reduce carbon emissions and bring down bills. We are talking about some of the poorest households in the country. I refer to working families on poverty wages who get the working family payment, carers, single parent families, people with disabilities and pensioners whose incomes are low enough to allow them to qualify for the fuel allowance. These are the people who are living in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...continued to support energy consumers to stay warm and well. Most recently, budget 2024 introduced a total €2.2 billion suite of once-off cost-of-living measures to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. This included a new electricity cost emergency benefit scheme through which €412.83, exclusive of VAT, is being credited to each domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...Question No. 266 of 20 June 2023, if he will agree that Regulation 10(5) is no longer legal and needs amendment; if he will agree that this amendment should extend to non-blood related carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...;500 for a single person and €1,000 for a couple. These changes resulted in over 35,000 additional households joining the scheme so far.I significantly increased the income and capital disregards for Carer's Allowance. This enables more carers with modest incomes to become eligible for the scheme and allows carers and their families to earn more from employment while retaining...