The Carers Association says the Government has made poor progress in its National Carers Strategy, since it was implemented in 2012.
The group, which represents 187,000 carers in Ireland, says cuts to respite and housing grant funding are having a huge impact on the work they do.
The National Carers Strategy contains 42 action points and was published in 2012.
Since then, just one objective has been fully achieved, with eight actions regressing.
The halving of funding for Housing Grant Schemes, poor discharge planning from hospital to home care and a cut to the respite grant are among the areas which have seen setbacks.
Spokeswoman Catherine Cox says they looked at all objectives to see how much progress was being made;