Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 October 2020
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion
10:15 am
Ms Anne O'Connor:
It is. I would not want people to think that people in public nursing homes have ready access to all of these therapies either because that is not the case nationally. There is a significant difference in different areas depending on the resource available. I would say, though, that as part of our development of our community health networks and our integrated care teams for older persons, and certainly based on the learning we have had from Covid with our Covid response teams, we are developing that view. Certainly, as part of the implementation of the expert group, it is something that we are going to prioritise in terms of examining what is available and how we can support populations regardless of where they live.
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