Results 41-54 of 54 for carer's speaker:Carol Nolan

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: ...households across the State. Hundreds of thousands of families will either be worse off or no better off on foot of the budget. By failing to make the kind of ambitious leap that was required on carers, the Minister has done nothing to address the crisis despite his commitment to deliver an additional 1 million home help hours. Family Carers Ireland sought a reasonable €3.2...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers' Strategy Funding (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate annual funding of €3.2 million in budget 2020 to an organisation (details supplied) to assist it in the delivery of vital core services to carers nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38471/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the general practitioner visit card to carers in receipt of the carer's support grant in Budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38473/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the hours a carer can work or study from 15 hours to 18.5 hours per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reform the means test for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38466/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the income disregard for carer's allowance from €332.50 to €450 for a single person and from €665 to €900 for a couple; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38467/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the formula for assessing means from capital savings, shares and property for carer's allowance can be increased in line with the disability allowance in which the first €50,000 of capital is disregarded. [38468/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider excluding carer payments in the financial assessment of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38469/19]

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Carol Nolan: It is shameful that approximately 600 people in Laois-Offaly alone are waiting for home help and home care packages. On Monday I attended a meeting in Mullingar which was organised by the Carers Association. I spoke to many carers and to people who are just fed up. Many of the carers to whom I spoke are caring not only for one family member, but for a number of them. They are at their...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Carol Nolan: ..., home care packages and respite care. People in counties Laois and Offaly are frustrated at the lack of home care packages and respite care. The progress made since the publication of the national carers' strategy in 2012 has been dismal. Will the number of home care hours be increased?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: ...may have forgotten about the health and the housing crises, as well as the difficulties which farm families are experiencing, how post offices in rural Ireland are closing, with communities declining, and how carers are unable to receive the help they so badly need. Freedom of conscience is not something which was unique to pre-repeal Ireland and it is not something which can be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: ...situation has gone on for too long. We must ensure that our elderly people are taken care of and be cognisant of the fact that they are saving the State millions of euro by doing a great job as carers. What is happening is an insult to these people.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Carol Nolan: ...problem. What provision will be made in the upcoming budget? I have seen at first hand how elderly couples are really struggling to cope. It is a very unfair burden to place on the shoulders of carers, who save this State millions of euro every year.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Carol Nolan: ...advise me that she received notification that respite care services in Birr have been cancelled at very short notice for the next two weeks, allegedly due to staff shortages, leaving an exhausted carer who is trying to take care of her elderly mother with a harsh choice either to cancel her much-needed break or leave her mother with no care other than two short daily toilet calls by a...