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Since 2008, the consumer price index has increased by 20.8%. The State pension has increased by 24%, before taking account of the living alone allowance and the fuel allowance. Since 2016, CIÉ salaries for active staff have increased by approximately 30%. However, the CIÉ pensioners have

adult carers have to put their lives completely on hold. Their lives are so disrupted that they cannot continue with their education, social lives or friends and simply being children is no longer available to them because of the care responsibilities they take on. That is purely … mums and others parenting alone. When we think about this motion and what flows from it, one of the big issues that is prevalent, and many people raised it with me during the election campaign, is the means testing of carer's allowance. What we are doing

scheme, RAS. She is to be evicted on 10 April. Because of the sky-high house prices in Cork, the council is not allowed to buy the house under the tenant in situ scheme. The council has said the landlord is looking for too much. This lady … family will be packing their bags. Where are they going to go on 10 April? Where will this lady and her three children live? She has no idea and no one has a solution for her. Can the House imagine the trauma that will be caused to those

process as we are part of the European Union, and as such threats are existential for the way in which we live our lives across the European Union. Ireland’s values and our commitment to the rules-based international order and multilateralism have not changed. However, these commitments … These projects help us ensure maritime security. We have seen significant increases in our defence spending in the past few years. This has allowed us to procure much-needed capabilities to provide for Ireland and the Irish people. The 2022 Commission on the Defence Forces report recommended significant

doing the exact same thing all over again. We are doing it in Palestine and the Sudan. We are allowing it to happen everywhere. I will not use my voice on that but I could not but say it. It is important when we have law that … imposed by law should be easy to find. We are going through this process to ensure that and that is welcome. We are living in the 21st century where international law is being reduced to terrible terms such as "rules-based order". We do not know whose rules

their experiences and the impact providing care can have. These young carers are children and young people under the age of 18 whose lives are affected in the most significant way by the care needs of another family member or household member due to their illness, disability, mental … plan or strategy to support their specific needs. Our social protection system fails to recognise their value, as the rules on carer’s allowance and other income supports are a major hurdle for young people in accessing or continuing in further and higher education, training or employment. Like

Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11070/25