Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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The big concern relating to nursing homes is that people are assessed when they are admitted but if they are then in the nursing home and their medical condition deteriorates, there is no provision currently for support funding to be increased even though the resident needs a lot more care. That is one of the big complaints from Nursing Homes Ireland. When it comes to private nursing homes, that mechanism is not there and that is one of they issues that they want addressed. A person can be admitted to a nursing home who is mobile and moving around. A number of months or years later, he or she no longer has the same level of mobility and therefore, a greater degree of care is required. That is the one big complaint that nursing homes have and we need to take it up with the Department.