Results 21-40 of 76 for carers speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Services for Children with Disabilities (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...in that region. I will raise that in my meeting with CHO 1. Discretion is required. Children should not need a diagnosis if the CDNT knows that a family is in crisis. The circumstance for the carers has changed and the carers need support. The mother must be at the end of their tether trying to support her partner and the other children and still have a child who needs 150% support....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: 445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on a carer's allowance application to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59374/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: 446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on a carer's allowance application to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59375/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: 447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on a review of a carer's allowance application to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59376/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: 448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on a review of carer's allowance to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59377/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: 452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a response in respect of a carer's allowance application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59454/22]

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...but it is important that we reflect on her portrayal of how home care should be delivered. It is how I envisage it within disabilities. Deputy Nolan also spoke in the same vein. It is about giving hours to family carers so that they can support people within their communities while they are awaiting more long-term supports. When people are discharged from hospital or if there is a need...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...a suite of interventions including early intervention, multi-disciplinary therapies, habilitation, rehabilitation and behaviour support, staffed supported housing, respite/short breaks to support carers, day services and support for community engagement, personal assistance, home help and assistive technology. Access to disability support services is based on need, not on a specific...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (6 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...delivery service which provides incontinence wear products to more than 70,000 individuals living in their homes. This is a person-centred delivery system, which allows the individual or their carer to vary both the time of delivery and the amount of product delivered, according to their specific needs. It is also possible to alter the location for a particular delivery should the need...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...of State, Deputy Butler, has established a cross-departmental strategic workforce group to examine current challenges associated with the recruitment and retention of home support workers and front-line carers in nursing homes. Arising from the completion of an evidence-based review and targeted consultations, a report for the consideration of the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...for step-down beds has reduced. In fact, the demand for step-down care is currently an average of less than one patient a day. Clifden District Hospital also provides respite beds to allow family carers in the community a welcome break. The Minister of State has been advised by the HSE that the average respite demand and occupancy is approximately three beds per night. This brings...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...employed by the public health sector and who worked or trained in environments exposed to Covid-19 or clinical settings. Aside from the staff covered by that, staff also intended to be covered by this arrangement are home carers working for and contracted out to the HSE and agency staff who worked in clinical settings for the HSE, including agency nurses, doctors, cleaners and paramedics....

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...hotel quarantine and it is the intention to again make provision by that means for individuals in these circumstances. It should be noted that the exemption provided for in the regulation also covered carers travelling with such an individual. The regulation-making powers have a degree of flexibility that primary legislation does not. The second aspect relates specifically to one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...all this myself. Absolutely not. I am working with the various steering groups, including the disability steering group, and the national disability inclusion strategy, which is made up of parents, carers, academics, advocates, designated public officials and umbrella organisations. The current iteration of it is the fifth disability stakeholder group, or DSG 5, and we are in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: .... The engagement of the Department representatives who attend with the DSG is wholesome, practical and about what they are doing. This is an opportunity for the umbrella organisations, parents, carers and designated public officials to hold Departments to account. They come before me quarterly and, in the meantime, they meet to work through what they have set out as their goals for the...

Seanad: Children in Care and Children Leaving Care: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...a concern for young people as they leave care and transition into independent living. The vast majority leave care at 18 with stable accommodation in place and remain there, living with their former foster carers. A small cohort, however, of vulnerable care leavers may face an increased risk of homelessness. Currently, those care leavers who are at risk of homelessness are assisted by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can apply for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56331/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: 460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a retired garda can apply for carer’s benefit; if such a person would qualify for the half-rate carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54041/21]

Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities within the Education and Health Sectors: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...is unforgivable and not acceptable to the families we all speak about and represent. At the outset, I have to mention that one of the key parts of our health supports for people with disabilities is carers and the incredible work they do. Let us not kid ourselves: without carers doing the work they do our health service would be under even more pressure than it is. I want to state that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the quality of the audit piece and, perhaps most importantly, the service level agreement that they signed up to as a service provider. That is where service providers realise how difficult it is for carers and why the supports are needed. When companies tender for a job to support a family, sometimes they do not understand what they are tendering for. That is where the service manager...