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Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...every day about what he is doing for the people. It is all blunderbuss and he is firing blanks. I refer to Deputy Alan Kelly. He is not here. The Minister of State gives us thanks, but we do not want thanks. The carers do not want thanks either. They want solace, support and to be heard. Deputy Butler was talking to the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, today. A simple solution is...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Michael Collins: ...increased privatisation of community care in this country is a clear indication that the public system is not working for people. Last week, the country watched in horror at the RTÉ "Prime Time" carers in crisis programme. We saw that thousands of people all over the country spend virtually their entire lives looking after loved ones who are unable to care for themselves. In many...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...Sláintecare report. The Department of Health will work closely with the HSE to maximise the value of this investment. We are also particularly mindful of the need to support family and unpaid carers. I reaffirm the Government's commitment to the national carers strategy. I welcome this opportunity to assure the House of the Government's commitment to bring about real and...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ..., and I raised it subsequently last week at the Committee of Public Accounts. The General Secretary had not considered that it might be more cost effective to look at the domiciliary care allowance, the carers allowance and providing home care packages and to do a cost-benefit analysis of it compared to the cost of long term residential care which is approaching €1 billion. It was...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...in the number over the age of 85 years. It is fantastic and I hope we will all get to live to a good age, but, unfortunately, the default position of successive Governments has been to allow carers, families and loved ones to carry the can. Today one in 20 people is a family carer. Collectively, they provide unpaid care worth a staggering €10 billion each year. When people have...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Pat Buckley: It is hard to believe there are more than 195,000 carers in the State, but it is more worrying that more than 29,000 of these carers are over the age of 65 years and that more than 3,500 are under the age of 15. My mother worked as a carer for over 30 years and, with other carers, knows the importance of providing care for older people in their own home. It offers them respect and gives...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...on several occasions in this House and before that in the Seanad, I again queried whether any research had been done on the potential benefit of loosening or relaxing the means test for the carer's allowance, which, together with the provision of a medical card, some home help hours and perhaps a housing adaptation grant, might help to afford people the dignity of staying at home and avoid...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Jackie Cahill: ...availability of services. Often it depends on where a person happens to live as to whether he or she may avail of home-based care. In my own county of Tipperary, due to a lack of qualified home carers in the area, there is little or no service available. Families have no choice but to look to the fair deal scheme far sooner than is necessary. Moreover, there is no transparency...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Jim Daly: ...new scheme will also result in more effective integration with other health supports, including nursing, therapies and other primary care services and will have consequent benefits for the family carers. The development of the scheme will be supportive of the complementary goals and objectives set out in the national carers' strategy, the national dementia strategy and the national...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Mary Butler: ...139 intensive home care packages were in place. That is a dismal number when one considers that we have, as I said, 55,000 people with dementia, 63% of whom live at home and are looking for support from carers. I have been doing quite a lot of work with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. It is astonishing to learn that 58% of people who have dementia forget to eat, 54% forget that...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Jim Daly: ...to many people across the country, the Government recognises that it needs to be improved to better meet the changing needs of our citizens. In particular, I am very conscious that the current system relies heavily on family carers. That was movingly highlighted by the "Prime Time" programme last week. Carers play a crucial role in helping older people to continue to live in their own...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Jim Daly: That measure will ensure that all carers in receipt of carer’s allowance who up to now have not qualified on means or age grounds will now be able to attend a GP free of charge. The measure will be implemented in 2018 subject to the drafting and enactment of the necessary legislation by the House.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Noel Grealish: ...people can visit, enjoy social interaction and take part in various activities and educational programmes to enable them to continue living independently. The centre also provides a day respite service for carers of people suffering from long-term illness. Various activities and educational programmes are provided which are specifically designed for the elderly community to keep them up...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to go back to their homes if they were well enough. That is where they want to be. We have to acknowledge the great efforts of the home help people and the great work which they do. These carers are the finest people in the world. The attention and care they give to the elderly is wonderful. The elderly people really appreciate them, but the problem is that they do not get enough...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Michael Harty: ...live independent fulfilled lives by enabling them to age with confidence, security and dignity in their own homes and communities for as long as possible; — maximise the use of community and home based care and support the important role of family and informal carers’, in order to maintain older people at home for as long as possible; — effectively reduce pressures...