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Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...to win 17% plus one of the overall vote, but since it will remain a four-seater, a new Independent candidate will have to win 20% plus one of the vote. For the 21% of the Clare population with a disability, for the nearly 9,000 carers in the county or for the parts of the constituency like Shannon and Kilrush that were deemed above average in terms of deprivation in Pobal’s recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...the reasons it warns about the comparability of national figures on health expenditure is that it relies on countries to produce their own data. Is it still the case that in Ireland payments to family carers are included in the healthcare expenditure we report to the OECD? Is it the norm among OECD countries to include such payments in their expenditure?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Canney: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the working limit for eligibility for home carers from 18.5 hours to 21.5 hours to allow for an increase in the number of carer's available to care for vulnerable people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49380/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...905 633 0 Disability Allowance 2,015,920 1,231,794 778,926 5,200 Blind Pension 12,815 8,885 3,905 0 Carer's Allowance 993,158 676,441 314,378 2,339 Domiciliary Care Allowance 224,476 188,059 35,830 587...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Claire Kerrane: 289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a special pardon for family carers who engaged in work (details supplied) during Covid-19, given the circumstances at the time and the small number of recipients who would be in this category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49386/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for carers allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49477/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this answer

Pearse Doherty: 305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made for a carer’s benefit review (details supplied); the current processing times for such reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49839/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 311. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons an application for carer's allowance was refused in the case of a person (details supplied); the degree to which the person was over the income limits for carer's allowance; if the application can be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49890/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (9 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...relieved and that a system that works is created. However, we will have to address the underlying issue, particularly in north County Louth, that there just are not enough people working as home carers at the minute and people cannot get the hours they need to keep their loved ones in home settings. This would provide some level of reprieve, however. I brought up another issue. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (9 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...than 3,000 people have been approved for funding and are waiting. The Minister of State led a really important new contract that has been taken up, which improves the terms and conditions for home carers. It sets out a minimum base for the living wage and it has payments for travel time. Our aim is to go from 21.5 million hours delivered this year to adding another 0.5 million hours...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group which I established last year. A new and improved HSE Home Support Tender delivers on commitments for sectoral reform such as payment for travel time, paying carers the National Living Wage at a minimum, and bringing legacy rates in line with the new revised rates of funding.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (9 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...centre-based day care. This was first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic and is universally viewed as beneficial, improving both the quality of life of clients and providing a break for family carers. Alongside this, I allocated €300,000 in funding to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland to provide weekend activity clubs for people with young onset dementia. This new service...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2023) See 6 other results from this answer

Paul Kehoe: 261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carers allowance review for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49090/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review/appeal can be entertained in the case of the refusal of application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49225/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (9 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the earliest possible stage, consultations are being planned which will include those most directly affected by this policy. Children and young people in informal kinship care arrangements, their carers and parents will be consulted in-depth as part of the development of the policy. In line with current best practice, these consultations will be carried out by my Department and completed...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023) See 15 other results from this debate

Anne Rabbitte: ...speak more generally about the extensive reforms occurring in social care. However, before I do so, I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding efforts of front-line carers and all those who work right across our health and social services. They have stepped up and demonstrated their commitment to meeting the needs of service users in our communities throughout...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Mark Wall: ...the numbers of those seeking home help support in the first six months of 2022 to the same period in 2023 we see a 3.7% increase in people needing care. Over the past week I have spoken to a number of carers in the system who because of their age are being encouraged to retire by the HSE. At a time when we have 6,000 people on a waiting list we should be actively asking these experienced...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...package of measures introduced in budget 2024 to support households. Budget 2024 introduced a suite of once-off cost-of-living supports worth a total €2.2 billion to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. This includes a lump-sum payment of €300 to all fuel allowance recipients this month. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities has announced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

.... Some of those difficulties have been mentioned already. Families have children with significant behavioural problems and presentations. They are violent towards their siblings, parents and carers and they are injuring themselves. Families are at times afraid to identify these issues because they do not know what doing so would mean in terms of disruption to the family when services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...for the Government. To this end, the cross departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group was established in March 2022 to examine, and formulate recommendations to address, the challenges in frontline carer roles in the home support and long term residential care sectors. The Group was chaired by the Department of Health and comprised representatives from seven government departments...