Moving to Ireland from Norway

I suppose the first question is what nationality are you? Do you have any ties to Ireland? If not, have you been and spent a holiday here? Why Ireland?

Have you read up on what the health system can and cannot provide, what you would qualify for. Just getting a medical card could take months, if you can get one at all, and getting personal assistants could be slow too. Once you are in the system it works rather better, but to come in and try and join the system is another matter.

If you have/can get private health insurance, or can sponsor yourself then its a rather different story, but if you need state assistance it would be difficult.

Even the initial, physical move could be a problem, getting an apartment, finding people to care for you while you battle the system. Sorry to be so negative, but unless there are aspects to your move (like family here) that you have not mentioned, it is going to be difficult.

The problem is though that medical cards can take a long while to get and are not granted readily. I have two daughters who returned from abroad, one from UK and one from US and neither were able to get medical cards even though theoretically they would have been entitled to them. Fortunately neither of them got sick and both are at the moment looking at getting private insurance, even though neither of them is really on a wage that would make it affordable.

Will you have an income from Norway? You would not have an entitlement here, I don't know whether Norway has an EU type agreement with Ireland, but again, returning residents even from EU countries do not have an immediate right to income.

I don't think you should depend on information from the internet (though we do our best) for this kind of move. You need to be in touch with someone who can guide you through the issues you will face. You could try contacting Citizens Advice http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_to_ireland/ or at least reading their information.

Good luck!

I wouldn't really recommend moving to Ireland at the moment. As other people have pointed out getting a medical card can take months and even when you have one getting access to medical consultants can take months if not years. In an emergency you can present yourself at any hospital Accident and Emergency department and be sure of seeing a doctor in a few hours but if you have a chronic long term condition it will take a very long time to set you up with a consultant. The medical card guarantees that you get free health care but it doesn't say when you will get it. Waiting lists for certain specialists like neurologists can be very long. Also you probably won't get personal assistants until the consultant gives the HSE a report detailing your situation and how much care you need. Personal assistants are very rare over here and I mostly get a person in to help me wash and dress in the morning and that's it.Even with a consultants report the home help is spotty and different areas provide different levels of support and you will be waiting for the home help as well. Everything else is up to my family to provide.
Getting some where to live will be an absolute nightmare unless you have your own money to buy a home. There is a serious housing crisis in the country and it's likely to continue for several more years yet. Houses for disabled people is rare unless you are buying it yourself and local authorities will struggle to house you. I'm not sure if you are entitled to housing free of charge even if you are from an EEA country.
There are plenty of people entitled to social housing over here but they can be on a housing list for years without getting anywhere.
Anyways good luck but I wouldn't move over unless you have your own source of income regardless of your theoretical entitlements.

Graces 7, you came from England so you had entitlements, you did not need full time carers. Someone coming from Norway would not have social welfare rights.