Dave Lawlor

Into my sixth decade of learning. Proud dad, lucky husband and frustrated carer. History, aviation, photography fan. Retweets not endorsement. Opinions my own.

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@sjholmesirl @NormaFoleyTD1 Keep all the mails and copies of correspondence

[Care Champions Ireland @CareChampions2]

All year long, family carers are going into debt just to care for their loved ones.

Think about the additional costs faced by older and disabled people, heating, electricity, mobility, and medical costs, to name a few.

There are no shifts in caring. There are no breaks even when you are sick. Many carers have failed health from years of lifting and going without sleep, month after month. And they are expected to do this within a cost of living crisis.

Family carers who give up work to care fly through their savings. They will never make mortgage payments or plan for their own future, because the government doesn't value family carers even though we save the state millions each year.

Carers often have to become beggars just to get a means tested Carer's Allowance, and are often treated by the Department as if they are trying to con the system from the outset.

Once a year, they are given a lump sum (€2,000 this year) so the government can shout, "Look what we are doing for carers!"

They say nothing about the lack of support. At budget time, they’ll celebrate funding thousands of care hours, yet many of those hours go unfilled because they can’t fix the system enough for people to actually want to work as health care workers. That money simply goes back into the pot, while the often aged, burned out family carer tries to carry on.

When will the government actually do something for carers?
Abolish the means test.
Give carers a payment worthy of the work and hours they do.
Fix the homecare crisis.
Implement supports for older people to age at home in dignity.
Introduce a disability payment that will make a real difference.

It is vile to be used as a pawn. The government uses this once a year payment as if they genuinely appreciate family carers. They do NOT.

Actions speak louder than words.

#Carers #CostOfLiving #CarersAllowance #CareCrisis #CareChampions

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@RobLooseCannon They always were, and remain, a bunch of uncultured malcontents

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@iky_fwjett This has already made my day. Best wishes to you and your family.

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@thepainterflynn Contact the hospital PALS team, explain it is urgent, and have them chase up.

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@PBatemanPilt5z @Solyricon This right here, 'she didn't lose value, they lost access to it'. 100%

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@Roger_Moorhouse @sauldavid66 @almurray @James1940 @Waterstones Currently reading it Roger and thoroughly enjoying it. Super!

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@Rainmaker1973 All came home

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@McNiffecent @daracallearytd @CarersIreland @welfare_ie @mulvanypeopleb1 @aarondalydub @AccessForAll7 @adayinmywheels @struggleiswheel @InclusionIre @1Hildegarde @NormaFoleyTD1 @SimonHarrisTD @TomClonan So now you want vulnerable groups fight over scraps?
How low will you go?
You are not a government working on behalf of all citizens, just those you feel bring value to yourselves. Profiteering thrives in housing, health, transport, disability services etc. Shame on you all.

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@TheMandyGall There is no profit in assessment of needs, and we all know this country is currently being run to benefit profiteers. Disability services, no profit. Hospitals, no profit. Council built housing, no profit. Local post offices, no profit. Local bank branches, no profit

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@TheMandyGall How many staff would that pay so they could open wards to perform scoliosis operations? How many could benefit from S&L, OT or other therapies? How else woulx it benefit vulnerable people? This is obscene

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@Matt_Pinner Coffee, deep breath, and enjoy the views

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@sorchanm @GarNob Most likely sending guidelines to parents on Lamh when their child has zero motor skills and has severe intellectual disability. I know they are understaffed and I have great respect for most of them, but parents are not trained therapists. We rely on them to help us.

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@fasc1nate Truly wonderful. Hope that is the gateway to many, many words and the world that will reveal itself to them

[Dave Lawlor @DaveL2007]

@Art0fThinking My mam

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@Editorialz Because they ARE a bunch of negligent amateurs playing games. It is all a game to them; health, disadvantaged, disabled, homeless, etc.. does not matter once they make their cut. How to destroy the best of a nation state in 15 years. I have nothing but contempt for them all

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@NaturalWomensIE @Jklunden Do they not monitor what is happening in other jurisdictions? Do they consider themselves 'better', or more informed? Tusla and HSE on wrong side of history on this one

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@sarahcatryan @TheMandyGall An appalling individual, not fit for any state office

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@cwknews @roseveniceallan They are not 'grooming' gangs, they are child rapists. This is obscene and hopefully the powers-that-be stand to be judged in years to come.

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@charliersmith1 Onward and upward Charlie, wishing you a terrific 2025!