Results 61-80 of 81 for carer's speaker:Ivana Bacik

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...indeed to protect basic social welfare rates. I know Senator Marie Moloney and my other Labour Party colleagues have pointed out that the Minister's priority is to protect the basic rates of social welfare, carer's allowance, disability allowance and the other core weekly payments and protecting also crucial supplementary supports for pensioners, carers and people with disabilities, as...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...person child care credit from January 2014. In recent days, quite a number of people have expressed concern about the unforeseen consequence of this. The proposal is to restrict payment to the primary carer only. This may cause great difficulties where separated parents have an arrangement for shared custody, where there are two primary carers. It is important we take another look at...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Ivana Bacik: .... A whole series of different expert group reports over the years have recommended their deletion and-or replacement with provisions that recognise in a gender-neutral way the important role of carers in the home and the community. It will be great to have an opportunity to debate it this weekend. We will also debate measures to improve the participation of women in politics and in...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ...protection budget. She has had the remarkable achievement of securing an extra ¤150 million this year. She has also managed to preserve the basic rates of social welfare, including the weekly carer's and domiciliary care allowance payments. These achievements are a testament to her work. It is also important to note that she has managed to secure funding for 10,000 additional job...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ...week but which was put forward by Senator Marie Moloney, that she would welcome an audit or survey of the provision of respite care places across the country. Many of us are aware that for many carers the issue is lack of availability of respite care places, and that an interdepartmental survey would be necessary in conjunction with the HSE, as well as the Department of Social Protection,...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ...and the Leader has given a good deal of time to it, as it requires. Many of us are very concerned about the cut in the respite care grant and the impact that will have on significant numbers of carers. What is required and has been sought by the Carers Association is an interdepartmental review of the provision of respite care. Having spoken to carers I know, for many the concern is not...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ...have that debate in that context. Senator Comiskey spoke about the Wild Atlantic Way in seeking a debate on tourism, which I am sure we can facilitate. Senator O'Donnell spoke about the respite carers grant, and we will have a debate on the Social Welfare Bill. I listened with interest to a Fine Gael Deputy on the radio this morning speaking of the need for a review of the impact of...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ...have that debate in that context. Senator Comiskey spoke about the Wild Atlantic Way in seeking a debate on tourism, which I am sure we can facilitate. Senator O'Donnell spoke about the respite carers grant, and we will have a debate on the Social Welfare Bill. I listened with interest to a Fine Gael Deputy on the radio this morning speaking of the need for a review of the impact of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 May 2012)

Ivana Bacik: .... In the case of Fr. Brendan Smyth, as well as children, he frequently groomed their parents to trust him to the extent that they would leave their children with him. Trusted family friends and carers of children who are not family members are covered by the concept of intra-familial abuse. One of the issues highlighted in the joint committee's hearings was the concept of reasonable...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Ivana Bacik: ...that will be one of the first changes the constitutional convention will recommend. Some years ago an expert review group on the Constitution recommended a new provision on recognising the role of carers in the home which, I think, would be supported by everyone and would be an important change to make. I hope that is one of the first things the convention will do but, of course, there...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Ivana Bacik: ...are in difficulties with mortgages, although this is a critical issue, but it should be on the manner in which State spending is targeted and whether it could be targeted better. I compliment the Carers Association on its briefing today. It made a pre-budget submission and a highly compelling case for maintaining levels of carer's allowance. All Members recognise that family caring, much...

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: To cut social welfare rates by €8 per week, to cut disability benefit, to cut carer's allowances are appalling developments in any Government, especially a Government that includes the Green Party which has said it is about protecting the vulnerable.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Ivana Bacik: ...the most brutal in the country's history. The cutbacks will severely affect the low paid and those in receipt of social welfare. Cuts of €8 per week have been announced for those in receipt of carer's and unemployment benefit and blind and disability pensions, which is outrageous. Having listened to the people express their anger and highlight their despair, it is important that we...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010: Second Stage (17 Feb 2010)

Ivana Bacik: ...considered irrelevant. Now it is faced with a new challenge: that of acknowledging that the recognition of the rights of the person with mental illness is an essential ingredient of the ethical carer/patient relationship. Moving away from that incarceration model to the welfare model, we still have not moved fully to the recognition of the rights of persons with mental illness. However,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Ivana Bacik: ...of the role of women. It is very welcome to see a proposal to have a constitutional amendment to enshrine the rights of children in the Constitution. I am glad to see the place of parents, as carers of children, is recognised. We could include the phrase "parents of guardians" but that is a matter for debate. When talking about parents in respect of the new children's rights amendment,...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: Assuming the Bill passes, we need a debate on the impact the cutbacks are having, including the reductions in carer's benefit and jobseeker's allowance for young people. We need to know the impact this is having on young people in practice. I support calls for a debate on Gaza, which is an important issue on which there is cross-party consensus. Finally, I am glad to see legislation...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...recognised in law. That is an important gap in our legislative system. Another amendment I hope to make on Report Stage, which I raised a number of times on Committee Stage, is on long-term foster carers and making provision for children who are in long-term foster arrangements to ensure they have some protection beyond the minimum protection in the foster relationship in law. I am...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...rights. A better approach would be to provide for special guardianship. The likelihood is that those who will make application under this section will be either relatives or recognised foster carers of the child. In such a situation, English law provides a mechanism for long-term foster parents to apply for special guardianship under section 115 of the 2002 Act. They take on parental...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...their late teens an order may be made at that point. The difficulty arises for a younger child — these cases happen — who is facing the awful prospect of being moved between different foster carers or from foster carer to natural parent and back again to foster care. In this case the child has no degree of stability or security in his or her placement under foster care arrangements....

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...idea to provide for special guardianship in this Bill or in other legislation. This is a mechanism provided for in section 115 of the UK Adoption and Children Act 2002. It gives long-term foster carers an additional legal status vis-À-vis the child who has been in their care for some time but in respect of whom an adoption order may not be appropriate. Senator Fitzgerald's amendment...