Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Seán Moynihan:

I will answer first and Ms Loughran may wish to add to that. We are engaging on this with the Department and we have probably been through three principal officers and several Ministers over five years with those quarterly meetings. It has been a process where, as the project in the Department has gone forward, we have tried to produce inputs that the whole of the sector agrees on. We want to be as helpful as possible and to provide people with inputs from the sector to make sure the voice of the older people we all represent is heard from the ground up. In some ways, as we go forward with these things, some elements of the submissions and asks that were there in the first iteration seem to be rolled back because people are concerned that the implementation of policy may be more difficult.

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