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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have to have silence in the Gallery, please. I call the Minister.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I do not know if the Deputy reads all the papers but carers welcomed the changes I made in the budget.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Those who get it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please let the Minister answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: But it is a means test.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please let the Minister answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The changes I made in the budget mean more will get it. I meet them and have talked directly to them. I fully-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Does that mean some do not deserve it because they cannot get it under the means test? Is that what the Minister is saying?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: You have had your time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy Murphy, you are out of order. Will you let the Minister answer?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I see first-hand the challenges that carers face.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Then abolish the means test.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: There is a mother in the Gallery and I know the challenges she faces because she told me. It is not easy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Abolish it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: We have made considerable changes but we are on a journey. We have to do more. I accept that but we cannot do everything on the one day. We have made substantial changes to the carer's support grant. It has been increased. The carer's allowance is now a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance. Domiciliary care allowance has been increased; I have increased it by €50 during my...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Talk is cheap.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: It is not talk. You are wrong.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: We all know what the answer is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: All this shouting is bringing the House into disrepute. Can we move on to Deputy Mattie McGrath, please?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I travel to Monaghan a lot too, as the Minister knows, in case she picks me up on something.