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

Matt Shanahan: I am sharing time with Deputy Naughten, who will be along shortly. It is often said that you can judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable. That observation can also be applied to how a state treats those who provide 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,...

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

Marian Harkin: ...in the next two budgets in order that by 2027, we will be able to introduce a non-means-tested participation income for family carers. Care is central to how we live and how our societies function, and for far too long, family carers have carried the burden, saving the State approximately €20 billion per annum. That is equivalent to a second HSE. Family carers in Sligo save...

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

Emer Higgins: ...December of last year and a €400 lump-sum payment for people receiving the carer's support grant, which was paid in November 2023. In addition, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, has acted to provide a pension solution for long-term carers. A range of other supports for carers, provided by the Department of Social Protection, are not based on a means assessment. These include the...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., 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 of their caring role, often without adequate support or recognition, can negatively impact a carer's physical and mental health, financial stability and social integration....

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

Mattie McGrath: ...We saw what the then Taoiseach thought of the carers when a week before the vote he said the family was and should be the primary carer. We know where the Government's commitments lie. They are a long way from supporting the ordinary people who give of their valuable time so selflessly, 24-7. We need recognition for them. This motion should be adopted. I am not going to go into the...

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

Michael Collins: ...this service is set to be discontinued in two weeks' time. The discontinuation could lead to potential falls and injuries for those who rely on the service, possibly resulting in hospitalisation, long-term residential care or the need for family members to provide care. This could increase the financial burden on health services and disrupt families. The service's discontinuation is due...

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

Gary Gannon: ...spoken to people about this issue is the amount of women who have had to leave the workplace to take up a caring role and because of their husband's payments, the State determines that they will no longer be in receipt of an income. So many lose their financial independence and that is absolutely scandalous. Many carers are left with no financial independence having spent their whole...

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

Patricia Ryan: ...of age, are carers. These people spend their lives caring for family members, whether it be elderly parents or a child or adult dependant with special needs who will continue to need care for a very long time to come. Let us not forget those elderly people who are left to care for ill and vulnerable spouses or adult disabled children with special and often complex needs. These people...

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

Seán Sherlock: I congratulate Deputy Higgins on her appointment as Minister of State. I wish her well in the role and I hope that she will have a good, long sojourn in the Department. It is appropriate that the Minister of State is here. Although she may not be the line Minister for this issue, she is the Minister of State in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with responsibility for...

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: ..., there are thousands who do not get payments. Many of those are struggling to secure respite care and people are fighting to secure home care packages for the elderly. Waiting times are getting longer, and there is a shortage of home care assistants for young people with disabilities. I bring to the attention of the Minister of State that where younger people with disabilities - by...

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

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...corner of Ireland, there are family carers tirelessly devoting themselves to the well-being of their loved ones. In fact, family carers represent one in eight of the Irish population and have long been the cornerstone of care provision in this country. Whether it is caring for an ageing parent, a spouse with a chronic illness or a child with special needs, these remarkable individuals...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...so. Aside from the fact that we need to respect, recognise and support carers, we need to recognise the challenges that other countries are facing. Increasingly, there is a challenge in terms of care. If someone is looking for care from the HSE, it is extremely difficult to access hours. The waiting lists are very long in many places, including in my own county of Cork, where they are...

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

Verona Murphy: ...a wait of three years for an MRI under general anaesthetic. Then Covid happened and the surgery that was meant to take place in 2018 only took place in October 2021. The bone had been left for so long that the ball joint had worn down to the socket. The femoral head had to be removed and a titanium shoulder put in. This was supposed to leave the child pain-free but with a shorter leg....

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

Mary Butler: At the outset I want to pass on the apologies of the Minister for Social Protection who cannot be here to take this debate as she had a long-standing commitment. The Minister is not opposing the motion put forward by the Deputies. I welcome this opportunity to discuss the important issue of supporting our family carers. I thank the Regional Group of Deputies who brought forward this...

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

Michael Lowry: .... It comes about as a result of need. It is undertaken as a result of love. While need and love are the driving forces behind one family member undertaking to attend to the needs of another, the long-term reality of what is involved can prove to be daunting. Neither the need nor the love diminish as time moves on. Until people stand in the shoes of a family carer, they can never hope...

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

Seán Canney: ...one in eight people in Ireland provide regular unpaid care; — family carers are the backbone of care provision in Ireland, however they often lack support and recognition; — caring intensively over a long period without support or recognition negatively affects a carer's physical and mental health, financial status, and social integration; — for many carers who...