Minister Humphreys announces changes to the Disability Allowance means test for PhD students Image: Minister Humphreys announces changes to the Disability Allowance means test for PhD students
The Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys TD, has today formally signed regulations that will remove barriers facing PhD students with disabilities.
The regulations will ensure that scholarship awards for PhD students are excluded from the means test for Disability Allowance (DA).
Minister Humphreys made the decision following direct engagement with DCU PhD student Catherine Gallagher.
Speaking after signing the regulations, Minister Humphreys said:
“Catherine’s case demonstrated to me that there was a clear unfairness in the system, which I have now removed through the signing of these regulations.
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Councillor Ann Norton says carers continue to be neglected in the vaccine rollout schedule. Photograph by John Kelly.
Prioritise carers for vaccine, says Clare councillor
March 7, 2021
FAMILY carers in Clare have been completely neglected by the lack of priority in the national vaccination programme, a local councillor has claimed.
While patients aged 16 to 69 with serious underlying health conditions have been moved up the national vaccination priority list from category seven to category four, Councillor Ann Norton said general practitioners have not been directed by the HSE to make this change.
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Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent
The Department of Health has said it is not possible to administer Covid-19 vaccinations to all staff working in all residential facilities in disability services at this time, due to limitations of supply.
Staff who do not receive the vaccine in the coming week will be included in the vaccination programme for frontline healthcare workers, which will continue in February.
The confirmation comes after the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, told the Dáil that staff in long-term care facilities with disabilities were being vaccinated this week.
Disability representative organisations said this was not the case.