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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

CARERS

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Carer's Strategy

• National Carers Strategy

• Carers Strategy
• Progress on Carer’s Strategy
• Progress on Carers Strategy
• Questions to Minister for Social and Family Affairs: National Carers Strategy
• Carer’s Strategy
• National Carers Strategy
• Carers Strategy
• Carer’s Strategy
• National Carer’s Strategy
• Departmental Strategy Statements: Carers Strategy and Respite
• Policies and services for young carers
• Order of Business: Primetime programme on carers
• Adjournment Debate: National Carers Strategy

Legislation

• Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008 — Report and Final Stages

Carers and the economy

• Contribution carer’s make to the economy
• Carer’s allowance in lieu of institutional care

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ALLOWANCES

General

• Habitual Residence Condition
• Allowances for Carers
• Allowances to Carers
• Free Travel to Carers who are under 16
• Increasing payments to carers
• Social Welfare Appeals
• Cost to Exchequer if Carers stopped working
• Speedy processing of entitlements and services for parents who have children with disabilities and care for them full-time
• Supports for parents who care full-time for children with disabilities
• Priority Questions: Social welfare supports for carers

Domiciliary Care Allowance

• Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Number of Children moving from Domiciliary Care Allowance to Disability Allowance
• Transfer of Domiciliary Care Allowance to Social and Family Affairs
• Qualifying criteria for Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Domiciliary care allowance - refusals
• Criteria for Domiciliary Care Allow
• Refusing domiciliary care allowance to children with intellectual disabilities and autism
• Domiciliary Care Allowance and Autism
• Decisions on domiciliary care allowance
• Refusals on medical grounds of domiciliary care allowance
• Criteria for granting domiciliary allowance for children with an intellectual disability
• Entitlement to Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Qualifications required for to assess applications for domiciliary allowance
• Number of applications received for domiciliary care allowance from April to December 2009
• Number of persons in receipt of domiciliary care allowance
• Changes to criteria for domiciliary care allowance
• Qualifying criteria for Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Full-time SNA and Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Number of applications for domiciliary care allowance scheme received in 2009 and 2010
• Satisfaction of DCA
• Figures on carer’s allowance, domiciliary allowance, jobseeker’s allowance and disability allowance in Clare
• If specific conditions are disregarded for domiciliary care allowance applications
• Waiting times and refusal rate of Domiciliary care allowance
• Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Appeals for Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Refusal rates for Domiciliary Care Allowance
• High numbers of resual for Domiciliary Care Allowance
• Review qualifying criteria for DCA to include children with ADHD, Aspergers and dyslexia
• If medical assessment should be only criteria for domiciliary care allowance applicants
• If assessment guidelines used by medical assessor for domiciliary care allowance appeals are publicly available
• No. of Domiciliary Care Allowance claims approved and refused since 2009

Carer's Allowance and Carer's Benefit

• Carers
• Delay in processing carers allowance
• Carer’s Allowance
• Carer’s Allowance and Carer’s Benefit
• Half rate carer’s allowance – breakdown of other allowances
• Cost of Carer’s Allowance

• Half rate carer’s allowance
• Review of situation where persons in receipt of the carer’s allowance who are providing care to a child are eligible for the free travel pass, but the child is not
• Half-rate carer’s allowance
• Situation where persons in receipt of the carer’s allowance who are providing care to a child are eligible for the free travel pass, however, the child is not
• Figures on carer’s allowance, domiciliary allowance, jobseeker’s allowance and disability allowance in Clare
• Applications for Carer’s Allowance received since 2006
• Priority Questions: time to process Carers Allowance

Respite Care Grant

• Respite Care Grant Statistics

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SUPPORTS

Care Assistants

• Care Assistants

• Personal Care Assistants
• Budget for personal assistants
• Assisted Living Supports
• Assisted Living Hours Allocated to Date

Home Care

• Home Care Packages for People with a Disability
• Protecting home help budgets
• Home help

Respite

• Respite care services in Sligo
• Increase in Respite
• Adjournment Request: Respite Beds in Ballyfermot
• Adequacy of respite care
• Adequacy of respite in Co. Kildare
• Adequacy of Respite Care
• Respite in Co. Kildare

Other

• Assistance with transport costs for carers
• Extend travel pass to include carers

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