Family Carers Ireland is a non-profit organisation based in Dublin, Leinster.
The association estimates that carers provide 194 million hours of care a year to the value of about 2.5 billion Euros to the economy.
The government has committed to developing a National Carers Strategy by the middle of 2008.
[3] The Carers Association was the subject of a chapter-length study in Care Work: The Quest for Security.
[13][14] Its importance in social care in Ireland was acknowledged by multiple government ministers.