Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland
9:00 am
Mr. Tadhg Daly:
Yes. Our longer opening statement references a report published several years ago by the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, on the provision of such services. Primarily, it highlighted the unavailability of primary care and General Medical Service, GMS, services because of long waiting lists. To be fair, the HSE undertook a quality and patient safety audit a number of years ago which also highlighted that in some respects there was a postcode lottery. It is back to funding. As Deputy Aylward stated, in the local authority, historically, if there was a range of services, it may have been provided, but we have, as I stated, numerous letters on file where it is not provided because the resident is in a private or voluntary nursing home and they are-----
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