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Dáil Éireann Vol. 1005 Wednesday, No. 5 31 March 2021 DÍOSPÓIREACHTAÍ PARLAIMINTE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES DÁIL ÉIREANN TUAIRISC OIFIGIÚIL—Neamhcheartaithe (OFFICIAL REPORT—Unrevised) Caring for Carers: Motion [Private Members] � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 587 31/03/2021H00100Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 596 31/03/2021H00300Estimates for Public Services 2021: Messages from Select Committees� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 596 31/03/2021H00500Message from the Standing Business Committee of Dáil Éireann � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 596 31/03/2021H00700Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 596 31/03/2021U00400Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders’ Questions � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 620 31/03/2021Y01100An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 631 31/03/2021CC00100Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 636 31/03/2021EE00300Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: First Stage� � � � � � � 641 31/03/2021EE01300Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regula- tions 2021: Referral to Joint Committee � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 643 31/03/2021EE01600Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Restoration to Order Paper � � � � � � � � � � � � 643 31/03/2021EE01900Ceisteanna - Questions � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 644 31/03/2021EE02000Cabinet Committees � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 644 31/03/2021GG00350Cabinet Committees � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 648 31/03/2021JJ00200Cabinet Committees � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 653 31/03/2021KK00900Post-European Council Meeting: Statements� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 657 Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 686 31/03/2021HHH00400Public Service Pay Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 703 31/03/2021LLL00800Public Service Pay Bill 2020: Referral to Select Committee � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 710 31/03/2021LLL01100Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 710 31/03/2021LLL02300Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 711 31/03/2021LLL02750Financial Services Regulation � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 711 31/03/2021MMM00600Covid-19 Pandemic Supports � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 713 31/03/2021NNN00250Insurance Industry Regulation � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 715 31/03/2021NNN00950Covid-19 Pandemic � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 717 31/03/2021OOO00600Banking Sector Remuneration � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 719 31/03/2021PPP00900Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 721 31/03/2021PPP01000Insurance Costs � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 721 31/03/2021QQQ00400Banking Sector � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 723 31/03/2021RRR00100Insurance Costs � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 725 31/03/2021SSS00350Tax Code� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 728 31/03/2021SSS01150Banking Sector Remuneration � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 730 31/03/2021TTT00650Illicit Trade � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 732 31/03/2021UUU00600Mortgage Insurance � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 734 DÁIL ÉIREANN Dé Céadaoin, 31 Márta 2021 Wednesday, 31 March 2021 Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10 a�m� Paidir. Prayer. Caring for Carers: Motion [Private Members] 31/03/2021A00200Deputy David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — for too long family carers have been taken for granted and denied the supports that they and their loved ones need; — family carers have been wrongly forced by Government after Government to fight for their children’s basic rights to education and vital therapeutic supports, and as the abhorrent practices uncovered by RTÉ Investigates demonstrated, the State does not fight fair; — the failure of the Government to prioritise family carers in the Covid-19 vaccine rollout programme shows they have yet again been forgotten and forced to fight to en- sure the wellbeing of their children and loved ones; and — carers have been stretched to the limit over the past year due to the Covid-19 pan- demic, providing increasing levels of care with less support or respite; further notes that: — the income supports in place for family carers are not adequate; — the income disregard for Carer’s Allowance has remained the same rate for the last twelve years, sitting at €332.50 (€665 per couple), despite steady increases to aver- age earnings and the cost of living in this time; — the self-employed are currently deemed ineligible for Carer’s Benefit; 587 Dáil Éireann — many carers do not currently qualify for free general practitioner (GP) care; — current waiting lists for counselling in Primary Care extend to over 10,000 per- sons in need of help; — the closure of respite, day and overnight services has had a profound negative ef- fect on the wellbeing of carers; and — the inequitable treatment of carers in respect of transportation services to these vi- tal supports are currently free in some Health Service Executive Community Healthcare Organisations areas, but not in others; welcomes: — the renewed commitment in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future to ‘review and update the National Carers’ Strategy’, and calls for immediate action to do so; and — the limited Budget 2021 increase to the Carer’s Support Grant; and calls on the Government to: — prioritise family carers in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; — work with family carers to deliver the services and supports that their loved ones need and immediately end the practice of compiling and storing secret dossiers on chil- dren using information gathered by health, education and social care professionals, shared without the express consent of their parents; — relax the Carer’s Allowance means test, by raising the income disregard thresh- olds in order to increase eligibility and payments; — further increase the annual Carer’s Support Grant; — increase Carer’s Allowance and Carer’s Benefit in every budget over five years; — establish a discretionary fund for Covid-19 utility debt to aid carers and people living with a disability struggling with heating and electricity costs; — extend eligibility for Carer’s Benefit to the self-employed; — extend an automatic GP visit card to all recipients of the Carer’s Support Grant; — create an emergency talk therapy fund, to provide sessions with an accredited counsellor or therapist in the private system for carers on referral from a GP; — ensure that family carers get the respite they need by building up respite capacity, including delivery of hours and overnights through a doubling of public expenditure; — prioritise the full resumption of respite Day Services in the re-opening and imple- ment the standardisation of the provision of free transport to and from these vital ser- vices; and — update and publish the National Carers’ Strategy in 2021, with a dedicated budget 588 31 March 2021 and timeframe to ensure the implementation of all actions� I am sharing time with a number of colleagues� I appeal to the Minister to support this mo- tion and, more than that, to ensure all of the asks in it, which are supported by Family Carers Ireland and family carers, many of whom I have engaged with in recent weeks and months, are implemented and delivered.
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