Results 41-60 of 94 for carers speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of including carer's allowance as a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance. [25467/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...and do that this morning. However, I am very glad they are before us and very glad that we all got to hear their stories this morning. For a long time, there have been massive issues regarding carer’s allowance, its inadequacy, accessing it in the first instance and accessing it at very reduced rates. In many instances, it comes down to the fact that, as is the case with many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland (18 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I seek one quick clarification from Family Carers Ireland. In his opening statement, Mr. Dunne mentioned that he believed that a review to be undertaken would possibly see the abolition of the means test or the establishment of a participation income for carers as recommended in the NESC report in 2020. Will Family Carers Ireland now formally call for the Minister to abolish the means test...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (17 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...income supports. I am sure the staff have worked long hours in that regard, which must be acknowledged. I wish to mention one cohort in particular in regard to pensions, namely, family carers. For a long time they have been promised a solution in respect of the State pension. It is a real shame that in this day and age we have family carers who have given years of support to a loved...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered providing flexibility in relation to means testing thresholds for carer’s Allowance or for providing additional financial supports for carers of children with profound or long-term disabilities given that there are many cases of parents requiring life-long supports to provide care for their children in these circumstances...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to increasing the threshold for travel allowance as part of the means testing assessment for carer’s allowance on reflection of the rapidly rising prices of petrol and diesel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22370/22]

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...a household of being disconnected and not being able to turn on the lights or heating in the home. We have to remember the impact that must have on vulnerable households, older people, lone parents, carers and children in households and in families. These are children who are getting in the morning and going to school and perhaps coming home to a house that is cold or where there is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (28 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to develop a pension solution for family carers. That commitment is now nearly two years old. The Report of the Commission on Pensions, which was published seven months ago and on which we still await the Government's response, made a number of recommendations for family carers. Can a commitment be made to ensure that this pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (26 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the provision of a State pension solution for carers as committed to in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19764/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (26 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to including foster carers within a State pension solution for carers given that she is due to report on updates to the State pension in the coming weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19765/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (29 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing exemptions for specific types of savings within means testing for carer’s allowance such as cases (details supplied) and in consideration of forthcoming changes to capital thresholds later in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16555/22]

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...whatsoever and we are also at a point where every single working-age weekly social welfare payment is already well below the poverty line. The Government speaks about those increases like it speaks about the fuel allowance, namely, as if it were doing people a favour. The reality is we have entire cohorts of people, including those who rely on social welfare like lone parents, carers and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to including foster carers under the State pension for long-term carers recommendation from the Pension Commission report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1036. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to increase the number of home carers to alleviate waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14785/22]

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...peddling the argument about savings unless it actually has the figures in the first instance, which up to now it has not. I welcome the commitment in the programme for Government for a solution for family carers. In many cases they are working extremely hard 24-7 for a basic social welfare payment and not much else. In many cases, they are denied a State pension on retirement or they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to including foster carers as an eligible group as part of the recent recommendations by the Pension Commission regarding establishing a State pension for long-time carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11995/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...down. Waiting lists are sky-high and almost 5,000 people are waiting for access to home care. They have been approved, but they are waiting. These are 5,000 vulnerable people waiting for a carer to be assigned to them. This is unacceptable. The situation causes great stress and worry, not only for the people involved but for their families as well. This is happening because the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the availability of the one-parent family payment and half-rate carer's allowance by enabling eligible recipients to claim the payment until a child reaches 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62261/21]