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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I thank my colleague, Deputy Pauline Tully, for bringing forward this motion. We certainly need a more humane approach for people with disabilities and carers. We need to work to make a real and lasting difference in people's lives. I know there will be lots of carers and people with disabilities looking in tonight, and as often happens, the picture that is painted is so...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...recently in the media but I will not dignify those comments by repeating them. What I will say is this. We, in Sinn Féin, see the importance of the State and the role the State must play in supporting carers and people with disabilities. It is a very great pity that the man who heads the Government does not see the same. Government policy is writ large on the stressed-out faces...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Donnelly: ...Lodge Community Centre and the Hartstown Local Centre. They do absolutely incredible work empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives and to achieve their full potential. These supports, along with their carers, are vital to that aim of achieving their full potential. Last night, I was in the Corduff Sports Centre and attended the launch of the Thrive Group, which...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...We should keep that with modern language without a reference to duties, while recognising the importance of parents in a home and the parental work that they do. A parent's work is not the same as a carer's work, although of course they overlap. I refer to what the Minister should have done. I hope this goes down on Friday, not to score points with the Government but in order that we...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...ratification as it is now long overdue. We remember the delays in the ratification of the UNCRPD in the first instance and the 11 miserable years that went by there. Last year, there were 5,500 family carers who did not receive the carer’s allowance but did receive the carer's support grant, 319 of whom were in County Clare. We must phase out the means test for carer’s...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: ...ambiguity. It lacks the robustness needed to hold the State accountable for the care of those who depend on us. It is a hollow promise, a mere whisper in the wind that fails to genuinely uplift carers or those in need. The proposed amendment serves as a stark example of a Government that pays lip service to pressing issues. A "Yes" vote would unwittingly endorse this inadequacy, but...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely debate. If the Government really wanted to help carers and people with disabilities, it could have clearly done so in the budget. The disability capacity review tells us that between €80 million and €90 million was needed yet the Government only provided €64 million. The €20 million...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which takes an overarching view on the absolute need to provide greater supports to people with disabilities and carers. It is also very interesting and timely to see that today, IBEC issued a detailed report entitled Better Care Better Business. Many of the recommendations in the IBEC report are very similar to those in the Sinn...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: ...bring this in. Bringing it in is part of the programme for Government. It is running out of time. I ask them to get on with doing this before the Government ends its rule. We are talking about carers and it is important. Everybody gives a story about what is happening in each constituency. People come into my office from all over the constituency who are crying out for help to try...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Carol Nolan: In the referendum we will vote on this Friday, there are absolutely no new rights for carers or disabled people. The fact that legislation is being rushed and guillotined is also of serious concern. It is an insult to the intelligence of people and the electorate. A total of €20 million of taxpayers' money is being lashed out on this referendum. That €20 million could have...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this important motion tonight. Relaxing the carer's allowance means test and increasing the disability allowance, invalidity pension, illness benefit, carer's allowance and benefit, and the annual carer's support grant is of paramount importance. I believe that taking care of people in their own home is the best place you can have...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: ...Angered by the Government’s failure to go beyond “strive” and to make mention of support outside of the family, opposition to the amendment began to develop among people with disabilities and carers. People who had faced years of State neglect, who had had to fight tooth and nail for every small thing, decided to draw a line in the sand and put the issue of their...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: While the upcoming referendum on care in the home aims to provide constitutional recognition for Ireland's family carers, the Governments needs to provide much more substantial supports to both carers and those with disabilities. Financial supports for people with disabilities and family carers are inadequate and fail minimum essential standards of living tests. The Department’s own...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...Rights of Persons with Disabilities? Why not give them the rights if we want to do something meaningful? If we want to spend €20 million, make it meaningful and remove the actual means testing for these carers who are in the home. We do not need wording in the Constitution. It does not matter because most of the carers are women. Nothing will change. That is the difference....

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of women's rights and women's equality but he feels absolutely failed and insulted by the fact the Government has not included in the referendum rights for people with disabilities and indeed for carers. He feels the phrase "strive to" is an insult which means nothing and he has no trust in the Government or that it is - to use what I think is the Taoiseach's phrase - a stepping stone...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...and opportunities are decided based on Government budgets that do not allocate enough funding and they are not based on human rights. In a rights-based system, when you are entitled to a service, you receive it - from SNAs to carers, respite, accessible transport, and independent living accommodation. Ireland is so very far from this. Disabled people face an uphill battle from the day...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Crowe: The biggest concern expressed to me by older carers, but not exclusively, relates to who will look after their loved ones when they are gone. They go to bed worrying about what will happen if something happens to them, and they probably wake up in the morning with the same nagging question. Things may have improved but most of us accept we have a long road to go. A constitutional...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Sinn Féin for introducing this important motion. Every time we debate disabilities and carers in the Dáil, a structural issue arises. We have an issue like we had in UHL today, for example. The matter is the responsibility of the Minister for Health. If we are talking about taxation reform, the Minister for Finance is responsible, and so on, but responsibility for...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Johnny Guirke: ...people with a disability feel they have been forgotten about. Many fear they will have to move out of their home because they cannot continue to live independently due to a lack of support. Many carers I have spoken to have told me they go into a client's home on their days off to assist them. That is scandalous. If not for the compassion shown by those carers, their clients would not...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: This motion is about providing for those with disabilities and their carers. They deserve so much better than they are getting at the moment. They deserve the quick delivery of the services and support they need. There are more than 500,000 family carers across the State. They are tremendous people who have made great sacrifices in their own lives to care for a family member. They are...