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Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: By moving this motion, we want to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of half a million carers around this country and give them some small recognition for the valuable work that they are doing by replacing the current system with a non-means-tested scheme for the carer's allowance focusing solely on care needs. Yesterday, I had a conversation with the mother of a child called Willow....

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...care to its most vulnerable. One could say that we know the cost of everything and the value of very little. In her opening remarks, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, stated that extending carer’s allowance in the way we are proposing could cost the State up to €600 million per year, but the PBO’s figure is €375 million. Either way, this is still a...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: First, I wish the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, well in her new role. I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion, which calls on the Government to abolish the carer's allowance means test and establish a high-level working group to do the groundwork in preparing for the delivery of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers. I have lost count of the...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...; thaobh cúramóirí de. Tá an ceart iomlán aige agus aontaím leis. I thank the Regional Group for putting this motion before the Dáil. Every year since I was first elected, I have argued in advance of every budget for a value to be put on the unpaid work of carers, who are predominantly women. When we look at the figure we have been given...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding support for carers, which I fully support. The way family carers are treated in this country is disgraceful. Sadly, carers are penalised despite the fact they provide the State with a vital service. Family carers play an extremely important role in care provision but completely lack any recognition for the work...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I welcome the south Tipperary carers, who are still with us in the Gallery, and Denis and Josephine Higgins from Monaghan, who are also with us here today. I thank the Regional Group for tabling this Private Members' motion and for highlighting the fantastic work carers do throughout the country. As the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, said in her opening...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: ...it, particularly its call for the Government to establish a high-level officials group to scope out and develop a road-map for the delivery of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers. Many of us have repeatedly called for greater levels of support for carers, even while accepting that a significant amount of Government funding is allocated. That being said, I make...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Minister of State on her elevation. I wish her good luck. I welcome this motion and I fully support its objectives. Today in Ireland more than half a million people, one in eight, are family carers providing regular unpaid care. These carers form the backbone of Ireland's care provision, yet they often lack the support and recognition they deserve. The long-term intensive nature...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I also congratulate the Minister of State on her appointment and I look forward to working with her. The Government is the carer of the country, but it is not reflected down along when we look at the legislation in place on carers. Carers go above and beyond to care for people in their homes. In regard to the value for money they give, there is no Government agency or employee that can...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Regional Group for bringing this worthy motion before us today. I will be supporting it 100%. There have been many promises in the past in regard to helping carers but they have fallen on deaf ears, so far. The nub of the problem is that means testing for carer's allowance will have to be abolished - full stop, no ifs or buts about it. There are other groups that should not be...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the family carers who are in the Public Gallery. Some are from my own county, such as Sophie Hannon, Andrew Rooney of Family Carers Ireland, Councillor Richard Molloy, who is manager of south Tipperary carers, and their supporters and friends, including John Hackett, Dennis Holland and Joan Looby. Indeed, Joan recently lost her sister, Tina, for whom she cared so lovingly, and her...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: I congratulate the Minister of State in her new role, and I thank the Regional Group for tabling this important motion. Every time we have spoken about the carers of this country I have called for the carer's allowance means test to be abolished. It is time the Minister set this in motion. Carers are doing the work, so pay them. That is the simple answer. Also, the reablement...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think Deputy Smith is not coming in. I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this important motion. People Before Profit strongly believes we should abolish the means test for carer's allowance. Indeed, we are against means testing full stop. I will talk a bit more about that. In the case of carers, it is completely unacceptable. Hundreds of thousands of people in this...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion, which is incredibly important and timely. The Social Democrats fully support it. The motion recognises carers' invaluable contribution to society and highlights their mistreatment by the State, which is something that I hope we can work collectively, across the Chamber, to rectify. I echo the call to fully abolish the carer's allowance...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish the Minister of State well in her new job. It is a really important role, particularly when it comes to carers. She knows that carers, and family carers in particular, comprise one of the most neglected groups of people in the State. They save us hundreds of millions of euro, and we pay lip service to their efforts. There are many things we can do. There is not a TD in this House...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: The treatment of family carers by the State is completely unacceptable. Time and again families come to me exhausted, frustrated and angry because they cannot get the home care packages they need. On occasions when packages are sanctioned, the staff are not available to supply them. They also come to me because they are struggling financially and because they cannot get respite care. I am...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...people, I am delighted to take the opportunity to speak in support of this motion. I thank the Regional Group for bringing it before the House. In data compiled by the Central Statistics Office, a carer is defined as someone who provides unpaid assistance to others. Almost 500,000 people, women, men and incredible children under 15 years of age, are carers. These people spend their...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...with responsibility for business, employment and retail. The issue of demographics is writ large across the issue being discussed. It will have a massive long-term, knock-on effect on how carers are supported. It will have a knock-on effect in the workplace, because as we face into increased rates of chronic disease such as Alzheimer's and dementia, workers will need to be part of the...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion and affording us the opportunity to address the House on the need to review and reform support for carers. Family carers have long been held up as a crucial pillar of parent support in Ireland. Various departmental strategies and documents refer to the important role that family carers play in our society, viewing them as the...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: While there was a great deal of money in the budget this year, it failed people with disabilities, their families and carers. The Government failed the 1,752 carers in County Laois and the 2,182 carers in County Offaly. Those are just the people in receipt of payments and, of course, there are thousands who do not get payments. Many of those are struggling to secure respite care and people...