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- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)
Marian Harkin: ..., can charge higher fees and still access the core funding. I ask that the Minister look at this and try to end that historical fee freeze and in some way achieve a balance between the two. If he could do that, it would go a long way. I also asked for an increase in ECCE payments to €100. I am not sure he is prepared to go that far but I ask him to go as far as he can. I move...
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: ...commenced which is welcome but major shortcomings in the current model of care have been evident for some time. The impact of the pandemic should have led to a more community-focused approach to long-term care, but the over-reliance on private nursing homes continues. Increasingly we are seeing this wealth extraction facilitated and even encouraged. Large nursing home operators, many...
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...for nursing homes. There is a severe shortage there. While it is a somewhat different issue, it is not entirely unrelated to the pressure on our hospital system. Too often people are in hospital longer than they need to be because of a severe lack of step-down beds but in some instances also because of a lack of long-term and respite nursing-home beds. The respite piece is particularly...
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)
Thomas Pringle: ...and consultation in what is supposed to be a two-way partnership. The Government needs to start listening to the childcare providers and workers who have been trying to communicate these issues for a long time. If we want a fair and equitable society, we need to ensure that our citizens have access to essential services. These should preferably be State-funded services, but at the very...
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "welcomes: — the extensive commitments by the Government to address long standing challenges in the Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) sectors; — the 72 per cent increase in State funding since the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future...
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)
Marian Harkin: ...the spend on the Fair Deal Scheme as a proportion of overall health expenditure has steadily declined over the last decade; - the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) report entitled "Long-term Residential Care in Ireland: Developments since the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic", published in January 2024, confirms that independently owned and operated nursing homes, many of which...