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Disability Allowance is payable to disabled people over 16 and under 66 years of age. The disability must have continued, or be expected to continue, for at least 12 months. It must cause substantial restrictions in undertaking work that would otherwise be suitable for a person of your age, experience and qualifications.
Transfer of Disability, Equality, Human Rights, Integration and Reception from the Department of Justice and Equality [38] 15 October 2020 Renamed as Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth [39] 1 January 2021 Transfer of Education Welfare to the Department of Education [40] 15 December 2021
Child benefit or children's allowance is a social security payment which is distributed to the parents or guardians of children, teenagers and in some cases, young adults. Countries operate different versions of the benefit.
The Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (Irish: An tAire Leanaí, Míchumais agus Comhionannais) is a senior minister in the government of Ireland and leads the Department of Children, Disability and Equality. The current Minister for Children, Disability and Equality is Norma Foley, TD. She is assisted by a minister of state:
The only medical conditions carrying automatic entitlement to a card are having thalidomide syndrome, having a surgical symphysiotomy, and children with cancer. [8] Many political parties support extending the availability of the Medical Card to eventually cover every resident in Ireland – they currently cover 31.9% of the population.
During 2020 and 2021, as part of Ireland's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, paramedics from the Army Medical Corps assisted in staffing ambulances with the HSE National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade in order to increase capacity, [5] Medical Corps personnel also formed part of the national testing and contact tracing programme ...
The Minister of State for Disability is a junior ministerial post at the Department of Children, Equality and Disability of the Government of Ireland. The Minister works together with the senior minister in the departments and has special responsibility for disability issues. The Minister of State does not hold cabinet rank.
Direct provision was originally introduced as an emergency measure in 1999. [4] In 2002 there were almost 12,000 applications for asylum. At the start of 2014, there were 4,360 people in direct provision, with more than 3,000 people having been in the system for two or more years.