Results 41-60 of 86 for carers speaker:David Cullinane

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (8 Sep 2020)

David Cullinane: 673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s support grant to €2,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21382/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (8 Sep 2020)

David Cullinane: 674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s allowance by €5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21383/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (8 Sep 2020)

David Cullinane: 675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s benefit by €5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21384/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Sep 2020)

David Cullinane: 1158. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deliver a carers guarantee of services; the estimated cost of such a plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21473/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Sep 2020)

David Cullinane: 1159. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of extending free general practitioner care to carers in receipt of the carer’s support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21474/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (30 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the means test threshold for entitlement to carer's allowance in €50 intervals up to €950 per week in tabular form. [12985/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (30 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the means test threshold for entitlement to carer’s allowance in €50 intervals up to €950 per week in tabular form. [13044/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (17 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: 675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the threshold disregard for the carer's allowance and carer's benefit is due to rise when the amount of hours a carer can work increases on 6 January 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52587/19]

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

David Cullinane: ...unfair about charging people for water in the first instance. It is also unfair for millionaires and very wealthy people to end up paying the same for these services as those on very low incomes and social welfare, including carers and people with disabilities. Many Senators will be going around the country knocking on doors and dealing with people who are in very dire straits. If they...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)

David Cullinane: ...welfare? It is the same old story of scraps from the table which has been the hallmark of the Government for five years. We have a Government that gave €181 million in a tax giveaway to the top 14% and yet did not do more for those on welfare, carers, people with disabilities and so on. Older people had their telephone allowance cut and many of the cuts that could have been...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: ...Advice Centres and Community Law & Mediation. In their joint submission the two organisations called for the deletion of section 4, arguing that it would do nothing but make it more difficult for carers to access income supports. They described the section as negative law-making, introducing a presumption of ineligibility for the payment which the applicant would have to...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: ...provisions of the Bill which is an area of concern for us, and has been raised by other Senators, is section 3 concerning the eligibility of caring payments. I am concerned at the section of the Bill in respect of family carers. In the submission on the Bill, the Free Legal Advice Centre, FLAC, and Community Law & Mediation called for the deletion of the section, arguing that it...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Supports: Motion (15 Apr 2015)

David Cullinane: ...a huge amount of money for lone parents, which they cannot afford to lose. Some 6,400 lone parents will lose up to €36.50 per week, 4,500 lone parents will lose up to €57 per week and 800 lone parents who are also carers will lose a staggering €86 per week. The only lone parents who will suffer an immediate financial loss from the move are those who are already in...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Dec 2014)

David Cullinane: ...already see auction politics, with tax cuts being promised everywhere. What about investment in public services and making sure we have enough teachers in schools and nurses and doctors in our hospitals to provide people with access to health care? Carers and those with disabilities should be provided with the resources they need. That is the type of debate I would like to see as we...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2014)

David Cullinane: .... The reality is that Deputy Joan Burton is the Minister who reduced social welfare payments by €1.5 billion and has made the lives of many pensioners and those in receipt of lone parent's and carer's allowance a misery. I do not believe they will be at all touched by her concern for them in the context of anything I might have to say. She has engaged in a number of such...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

David Cullinane: ...Government policy, is absolutely outrageous and despicable. Colleagues opposite should take responsibility for their own actions. They and their party voted for these cuts and are therefore responsible for carers, people with disabilities and sick people losing their medical cards. They should man up and, instead of blaming staff, take responsibility themselves. I am in agreement with...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

David Cullinane: ...the Taoiseach really feels the pain of the people who have emigrated and the parents who have watched their loved ones emigrate. I do not believe he feels the pain of people with disabilities and carers who have experienced cuts. All the savage cuts imposed by the Government have driven more people into poverty. If the Taoiseach genuinely felt their pain he would not be about to impose...

Seanad: Parental Leave Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Jul 2013)

David Cullinane: One cannot expect women to work longer hours while also being the main carer for their children, while men have no such responsibility. The State should value men's role in this regard. We need to change attitudes so that more people will accept that it is both parents' responsibility to care for their children. That must also be recognised by the State, however. If the State does not...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

David Cullinane: I supported and commended the Government on the publication of the national carers' strategy. It is very important we take a holistic approach to caring and ensure people have access to training and have proper income and respite supports. There is a package of measures which are necessary to ensure those people who do a tremendous, difficult and demanding job in looking after people in...

Seanad: Early Child Care Education Standards: Statements (30 May 2013)

David Cullinane: ...several times. We must place some of the responsibility on the previous Government with respect to an investment in caring generally and the value attached to it. For years I worked very closely with the Carers Association on its demand for a national caring strategy. I commend the Government for bringing it forward, but none of this, including the children's rights referendum which...