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Visit of Northern Ireland Delegation (24 Apr 2024)

Visit of Northern Ireland Delegation (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Before moving to Leaders' Questions, I want to draw Members' attention to the fact that we have a very distinguished visitor in our Gallery today, the Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker, Mr. Edwin Poots MLA. Mr. Poots is most welcome. Speaker Poots has given distinguished and dedicated service since he was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly way back in 1998 and is one of just...

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

Michael Ring: I understand Deputy Shanahan is sharing time.

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: 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: Gabhaim buíochas leis an nGrúpa Réigiúnach as ucht an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Tá na figiúirí leagtha amach go soiléir. Níl i gceist ach rud bunúsach, is é sin, fáil réidh leis an tástáil acmhainne ó thaobh cúramóirí de. Tá an ceart iomlán aige agus aontaím...

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)

Michael Ring: Before I call on the Minister of State to respond, I congratulate her and wish her the very best of luck.

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)

Michael Ring: Moving on to the Rural Independent Group, we have six speakers and I ask them to respect one another with regard to time. I will stop them after eight minutes.

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

Carol Nolan: I commend the Regional Group on bringing this motion forward this morning. I fully support 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...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I congratulate 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...

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)

Michael Ring: Next up is People Before Profit-Solidarity. Deputies Bríd Smith and Richard Boyd Barrett are sharing time, is that correct?

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...