PQ 51
131 Deputy Seymour Crawford asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who receive the half rate carer’s allowance; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many of those people would be legally entitled to hold onto their existing social welfare benefits and retain full employment if they did not opt to care for their loved ones; her views on whether this care is saving the country a lot of money in keeping the elderly and disabled out of full-time nursing home care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3331/09]
Introduced
3 February 2009
Last action
3 February 2009 · Social Welfare Benefits.
Status
written
Sponsors
Crawford, Seymour.
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
3 February 2009
Summary
131 Deputy Seymour Crawford asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who receive the half rate carer’s allowance; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many of those people would be legally entitled to hold onto their existing social welfare benefits and retain full employment if they did not opt to care for their loved ones; her views on whether this care is saving the country a lot of money in keeping the elderly and disabled out of full-time nursing home care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3331/09]
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
3 February 2009
Social Welfare Benefits.
131 Deputy Seymour Crawford asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who receive the half rate carer’s allowance; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many of those people would be legally entitled to hold onto their existing social welfare benefits and retain full employment if they did not opt to care for their loved ones; her views on whether this care is saving the country a lot of money in keeping the elderly and disabled out of full-time nursing home care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3331/09]
Source: written
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Social Welfare Benefits.
Social Welfare Benefits.
xml · EN · 3 February 2009
Sponsors
- Crawford, Seymour. · Asking member
- Minister for Family · Minister for Family · Addressed to
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2009-02-03/51/
- Open data entity: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/question/2009-02-03/pq_51
- ireland · q-2009-02-03-pq_51 · source updated 3 February 2009