Results 61-80 of 250 for carers speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Nov 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a carer's allowance application submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in making a decision on this application due to the fact that the application has been lodged since June 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50556/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (17 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue in respect of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing the payment in view of the fact that it has been with the payments and maintenance section for a significant period of time; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Sep 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a carer's allowance application submitted by a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in making a decision on this application, in view of the fact that the application has been lodged since May 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a clerical error made in respect of a carer's allowance application granted on appeal to a person (details supplied) in view of the fact the carer's allowance applications were made in respect of two persons and payment only issued in respect of one person; if she will ensure that the person receives...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (11 Jul 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 732. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of two carer's allowance applications submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in making a decision on this application in view of the fact that the application has been lodged since January 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32147/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (20 Jun 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 250. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the home carer's allowance for all families with children between six months and three years of age by €960 per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27276/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (28 Mar 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 245. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in issuing a date for a carer's allowance oral hearing appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15282/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (28 Mar 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in issuing a date for a carer's allowance oral hearing appeal to a person (details supplied); if consideration will be given to the fact that the person is under financial pressure and requires the oral hearing as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (22 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the home carer's tax allowance for the past year for which there are statistics; the maximum allowance per taxpayer; the total amount a full-time carer could earn and retain the full allowance; the number of persons in receipt of the allowance broken down by county or tax district; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36281/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (27 Sep 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a review lodged in respect of a carer's allowance application (details supplied) has not been dealt with in view of the fact that the review has been lodged since 24 May 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26497/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Jul 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., annuities, AVCs, insurance policies, including mortgage protection policies on a person's primary dwelling, are assessed for means testing purposes for various means tested payments including carer's allowance, disability allowance, dependent adult allowances, non-contributory pension, jobseeker's allowance and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19517/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 177. To ask the Minister for Health why he has not provided a replacement carer to a person (details supplied) under the home help scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15184/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (4 May 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why she has not made a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme given that the person lodged the application on 16 December 2015; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9161/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (20 Oct 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Galway, given that the refusal was based on the carer working more than 15 hours a week, and that this decision appears to be based on a misreading of the hours on the payslips, which were fortnightly hours rather than...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Sep 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation in relation to all aspects of agency carers as used by the Health Service Executive, to include recruitment, qualifications, supervision at work; if the Health Information and Quality Authority has any specific role in relation to carers; if he will consider giving it a responsibility in this area and generally; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Taxation Review: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...;1,650 of a tax credit, it is the same amount as the individual allowance. If we are to get some sense of the difference it would make and the number it would impact, we must remember that social welfare pensions and carer's allowance attract the PAYE tax credit. If someone is getting a contributory old age pension or an invalidity pension they get the PAYE allowance, but for some reason...

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in a more holistic way than we have in the past. An advantage of a scheme such as the family income supplement is that it only helps those who are in employment. In addition, apart from the carer's allowance, it is the most generous in the method of assessment - it disregards the USC, PRSI, union subscriptions and any income tax paid. We could go further with the family income...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... He was getting 10% from the bank on the shares and borrowing at about 4%, so he had 6%, which is €60 million, of a gain every year from these shares. That would have paid for the reduction to the carer's allowance and left €30 million in change, and all the cuts by the Minister for Social Protection which caused all the rifts in the Government ranks need not have...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...this. It is one of the most incredible things. Can the Minister explain his giving €60 million away to financiers every year from 2014 onward while making petty cuts to farm assist, grants to carers and all the things that were done in the budget, which need not have happened if the Government had insisted on getting its pound of flesh out of the commercial investments we have made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund: Motion (13 Dec 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...put into general taxation and gets lost in the maw of the €30 billion plus of taxation, and then, on a separate sheet of paper, €55 million appears for the horse and greyhound industry at a time when we are cutting carer's allowance and so on, it will be said this is a crazy thing to do, forgetting, of course, that if that industry did not exist, the betting industry would...