{"id":5243,"date":"2024-03-06T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2024-03-06T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:40:07","slug":"carers-need-rights-not-empty-words-in-our-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/carers-need-rights-not-empty-words-in-our-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Carers need rights, not empty words, in our Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that there must be a firm commitment from the State to support family carers because too many carers go to bed at night wondering who will support their loved ones when they are gone. <br \/><br \/>Speaking in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe biggest concern expressed to me by older carers, but not exclusively, relates to who will look after their loved ones when they are gone. They go to bed worrying about what will happen if something happens to them, and they probably wake up in the morning with the same nagging question. Things may have improved but most of us accept we have a long road to go. <br \/><br \/>\u201cA constitutional referendum that simply refers to carers and then fobs them off with no real promise of support is absolutely useless.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThere has been an abject failure to modernise the provision of home supports and personal assistance services for people with disabilities. Words alone do not recognise the immense contribution to the common good of the unpaid work of family carers.<br \/><br \/>\u201cCaithfimid tac\u00fa leo si\u00fad at\u00e1 ag tabhairt c\u00faram do sheandhaoine agus do dhaoine faoi mh\u00edchumas. T\u00e1 \u00e1r mbu\u00edochas ag dul d\u00f3ibh. Cuid\u00edonn siad linn ar fad leis an gc\u00faram sin agus s\u00e1bh\u00e1lann siad na c\u00e9adta milli\u00fan euro don St\u00e1t. T\u00e1 ard-mheas agam orthu.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThere must be a firm commitment from the State to support family carers. We must relax the Carer\u2019s Allowance means test and increase supports such as the Carer\u2019s Allowance. We must set a date for the ratification of the optional protocol to the UNCRPD.<br \/><br \/>\u201cT\u00e1 cearta c\u00faram\u00f3ir\u00ed ag teast\u00e1il seachas b\u00e9alghr\u00e1 sa Bhunreacht. Carers need rights, not empty words, in our Constitution.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that there must be a firm commitment from the State to support family carers because too many carers go to bed at night wondering who will support their loved ones when they are gone. Speaking in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said: \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}