Results 21-40 of 58 for carers speaker:Dara Calleary

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...once the Minister has an idea on supplies, and I would ask him to think of that. I am also concerned about the decision by the national immunisation advisory committee, NIAC, around family carers and home helps in particular. I know it is focusing its concentration on the client, but the client would not be in the health they are in without the work and commitment of the family carer,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jan 2021)

Dara Calleary: 968. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that family carers and registered home helps will receive priority in the Covid-19 vaccine programme in view of their importance to care in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (17 Sep 2020)

Dara Calleary: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the means test for carer’s allowance; if she considers it a fair assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (17 Sep 2020)

Dara Calleary: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the income disregard for carer’s allowance; if consideration has been given to the consequences of the measure for working families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24481/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Dara Calleary: ...week, we can never forget these people or their families. I also acknowledge the vast work done across the country but today I focus on my own county, Mayo, with the work done by health workers, carers, home helps, family carers and other professionals, which has been immense and under hugely challenging circumstances. There are specific difficulties which I have spoken to the Minister...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Dara Calleary: ...work for quite a number of them because they may not have access to it. They may not want to do that, or they may not have the wherewithal to do it. We must address certain appeals, for example, for carer's allowance or the domiciliary care allowance, to ensure they can be addressed more quickly and efficiently than is currently the case. I refer in particular to people who find...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2019)

Dara Calleary: ...spent on community care and community services, there will be health overruns and expanded waiting lists, and people will suffer. There is no understanding at Government level of the suffering of carers or families, and that is why the Minister needs to read this piece.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (20 Mar 2018)

Dara Calleary: 997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in receipt of carer's allowance who were self-employed at the time their carer duty commenced are denied a credited contribution; her views on whether this means that effectively two persons in receipt of carer's allowance are being treated differently by the...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: ...structured or planned. It needs to be examined. Those people who are in a queue for home help and cannot get enough time do not have six months. There are 21-week delays for considering a carer's application. Most initial applications are turned down and have to go into the appeals process which takes approximately 18 months. If we are serious about encouraging people to remain in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (6 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to have carer's allowance included as reckonable income to qualify under the tenant purchase scheme. [38543/16]

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...are couple of areas on which we need to focus. The length of time that social welfare appeals currently take seems to be stretching out again, particularly for those who are on disability payments or carers. My constant refrain, and I do not mean so in a political way but in a Government way, is that we seem to place blockages in the way of those people who are most vulnerable and those...

Topical Issue Debate: National Dementia Strategy (25 Nov 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...to be told that this is the cruellest of diseases. However, it provokes amazing and heroic responses from family members on a daily basis across the length and breadth of the country. Dementia carers are, frankly, heroes. While they do not look for recognition, they need support. Many of them want to keep their loved ones in their communities and their homes. The project is all about...

Child Care: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...needs to be formalised without destroying these arrangements, which make up for the shortage of places. The shortage would be much worse if this informal system was taken away. I refer to professional carers. The people involved in child care have walked the walk. They have studied for FETAC qualifications and taken courses. We trust them with our children every day and they...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Nov 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...seems to operate separately from the fair deal scheme even though they should be absolutely linked. Home help hours in my county have been cut. In some instances, people get 30 minutes a day. The carer is hardly in the door before it is time to go again. If home help is to be effective, it must be related specifically to the client and not provided on the basis of an idealistic...

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...as the Minister of State knows, given he knows what farming is, is practically impossible to achieve. There is an irony in that hill farmers, who have for many generations been the custodians and carers of our mountains and hills - those mountains and hills we are using to bring in tourists - will be prevented from participating in a new environmental scheme because of this extreme...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have a carer's allowance application processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22219/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (6 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20039/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 292. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18637/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (27 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that Mayo Carer's Association is to lose its only full-time carer's outreach training and development officer; the way carer's within the county are to cope in the absence of a full-time outreach training and development officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14648/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (27 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed changes to the contracts of full-time carers; his views on whether it is both unfair and unworkable to enforce changes that require full-time carers to be available for five out of seven days from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; his views on whether such an arrangement will result in working hours being banked; and if he will make a statement on the matter....