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‹ Questions on Proposed Legislation

Respite grants and overpayments

Summary

Deputy Scanlon says carers’ respite grants are being withheld to recover overpayments and asks for intervention. The Tánaiste requests case details and agrees the issues should not be connected.

I refer to people in receipt of respite care grants. In the case of carers who are looking after people with disabilities and have been overpaid, arrangements have been made to sort out the matter, including stopping their respite care grants in part payment. This is very unfair. Everybody knows that the respite care grant is paid to carers to support the people for whom they are caring, to improve their living accommodation or to take them on a holiday. I would like the Tánaiste to ask the Minister for Social Protection to examine this issue.

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Will the Deputy please send me the details? I will ensure the Minister is made aware of the point and that it is followed up. It does not seem that the two should be connected.

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I could send the Tánaiste details of several such cases.

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Really.

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