Results 21-40 of 104 for carers speaker:Holly Cairns

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on adjusting the qualifications for single person child carer credit to apply to both parents when they are legally separated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21349/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to enable full-time carers who are also pensioners to access the State pension (non-contributory) €200 cost-of-living lump sum payment as well as the carer's allowance cost-of-living lump sum payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21346/23]

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...some of the need for these types of leave. The Government must provide a statutory right to home assistance and staff and funding for children's disability network teams to support family carers and provide affordable childcare. They are ultimately the measures which will make a substantial difference in this area.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...Bill that helps to improve situations for workers, employers and families. It has many benefits in transposing into Irish law, the European directive of 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers. However, many of the flaws identified at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage remain and undermine the overall impact of the law. It is good to highlight the headline issues but when we...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to support family carers. [14887/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: Today is International Women’s Day. We know that women disproportionately adopt caring duties in the home. We also know the State's supports for carers are utterly threadbare. There are now 700 vacant posts in the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. Not one of those teams is fully staffed. Despite all the promises made by the Government to improve services, fewer therapy...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...could have been directed at those who needed them the most. It was wrong that all of us in the House, along with senior civil servants, CEOs and banking executives, got the same payments as pensioners, carers and people on disability allowance. Any system that treats millionaires the same as people living below the poverty line is unjust. The Social Democrats have consistently called...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to increase the pension entitlements of full-time family carers. [6115/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...to Move on from Congregated Settings recommendations and the introduction of a statutory right to independent living. The case of 1,500 people with intellectual disabilities living with primary carers who themselves are over 70 years of age, approximately 485 of whom are aged over 80, was mentioned. Sometimes when a family carer dies these individuals are forced into a nursing home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. It is important to elaborate on those concerns, specifically on the concerns with general data protection regulation and transition times for carers to become decision-making supporters or representatives, which was mentioned briefly in Family Carers Ireland's opening statement. Could the witnesses elaborate on that a bit more? Could...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (6 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: 349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the means testing system to qualify for carers allowance to consider applicants with income that can vary from year-to-year such as farmers or the self-employed. [60377/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (29 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to increase the pension entitlements of full-time family carers. [59052/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...Bill are the types of policy that will make life harder for many families this winter. First is the issue of core social welfare rates. Hundreds of thousands of pensioners, disabled people, carers, unemployed people and families are dependent on these measures. However, these payments are awarded on the whim of the Government rather than in any benchmarked and reliable manner. Core...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...need them the most, those who are most at risk. It is unconscionable that Deputies, Ministers, senior civil servants, CEOs and banking executives are all getting the same payments as pensioners, carers and people on disability allowance, not to mention, as my colleagues have referenced, that somebody with a holiday home gets double what somebody on the disability allowance will get. ...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Alternative Aftercare Services for Young Adults: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. Our engagement on the foster care system has highlighted insufficient resources and supports for foster carers, as outlined by Deputy Sherlock. This puts carers under severe pressure especially when the child or young person has high levels of need. It is great to hear that Tusla was advocating for an increase in the allowance in the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Alternative Aftercare Services for Young Adults: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is it possible for foster carers to pay for it themselves if they want?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Alternative Aftercare Services for Young Adults: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: The question I asked is whether a foster carer can pay privately for somebody who is in foster care where the family feel or know they need an assessment of needs. We know the waiting lists are outrageously long for that assessment. If a family wants to pay privately for an assessment of need, I am told they cannot because they are not the guardian; Tusla is. Ms Murphy says it is possible...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Alternative Aftercare Services for Young Adults: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Yes. We talked about the need to increase the payment for foster carers. For one thing, there is a rising cost of living and there has not been an increase in the payment in a long time. In the context of the percentage of children in foster care is going down and the percentage of those going into residential care is rising, the cost to be in residential care is €6,000 versus the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...to make this seem like a progressive budget. They should at least own their own policies. It is clear these long-term decisions will benefit the better-off while the more vulnerable, those on disability allowance, carers and pensioners only get temporary measures and one-off payments. In the middle of a housing disaster with record numbers of homeless people and failed Government...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...Ruane acknowledged. The number of children who go into care from the dysfunctional system has to be highlighted. I thank the representatives for doing so. With regard to speaking about foster carers and the different aspects of their role, which is very complex, it is important to highlight that we see everywhere unconscious bias towards people in poverty. The single biggest factor...