Results 21-26 of 26 for carers speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the thresholds for earnings in relation to qualification for the carer’s allowance can be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35090/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...give three examples. First, there is a single mother in my area with an immunocompromised child. The mother herself is young and fit but she cannot afford to become ill as she is the child's only carer. She does not know when she will be vaccinated. There is a couple caring for their young daughter with leukaemia. Their support system is gone because of Covid and they are now...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Minister is in a really difficult spot. He is listening to everybody here today and everybody has the exact same concerns. We are trying to get answers for constituents, people such as family carers and people who are not quite sure whether they are in cohort four or cohort seven. Completely reasonably, we are coming with these questions. If there is anything the Minister can do to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the policy in which entitlement to the domiciliary care allowance, carer’s benefit and carer’s allowance is suspended if a child remains in hospital for longer than thirteen weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4260/21]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...contact? I cannot answer that question or other questions. I cannot answer the question that came from the mother of a four-year-old child with type 1 diabetes. She is a lone parent and the only carer for that child. Will she get the vaccine when he gets it? It seems logical that she would, and that the programme has that flexibility built into it. All that mother wants to know to...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: First Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...more work to be done by us all in collaboration. We should not be prescriptive as to how women or men take leave or adapt their work to spend more time with their young children or give support to their partner who may be a primary carer. It is horribly paternalistic for us to continue to tell women how to organise their time. Maternity leave might look very different for different...