Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-21
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

My point is that pension abatement rules exist in this respect and I ask the Minister to examine flexibility with regard to it.
The final point I wish to make is that Family Carers Ireland has come forward with an innovative proposal to introduce a non-means-tested participation income for family carers, to move away from the carer's allowance altogether. It has put a very detailed proposal together. I ask the Minister to engage with it on that matter and get a commitment from the Government to establish a high-level interdepartmental group of senior civil servants to investigate how this could be implemented on a phased basis. I commend the motion to the House.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-21