Results 221-240 of 4,343 for speaker:Sorca Clarke
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I am not sure whether this was a genuine oversight, but amendment No. 140's subsection (3)(a) references "A responsible consultant psychiatrist". However, under the section of the interpretation No. 2, in the Bill in the area that deals with discharge No. 4 under No. 41, refusal of treatment No. 50, section 91, it also refers to the multidisciplinary team-----
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I am discussing amendment No. 140.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: My apologies. For once, I am ahead of schedule.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I am unsure if this is a genuine error. Under amendment 140, section 47(3)(a) references "A responsible consultant psychiatrist may extend an initial treatment period". However, under section 2 on interpretations, the area that deals with discharge under section 41, refusal of treatment under section 50, where the Bill proceeds to speak about children - section 91 under care plans - and...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I will raise the matter again as we get to other sections of the Bill.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 145: In page 60, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “Safeguards for Treatment Without Consent (1) No person shall be administered treatment without their consent unless a formal capacity assessment has been completed and the person has been found to lack the capacity to consent to the treatment in question, in accordance with the provisions of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Initially, I have to say I am absolutely horrified that HIQA representatives would come in here and say that RTÉ has more information than they do. You are the regulator of nursing homes. You are the people families put their trust in. That is beyond my scope of understanding, how you can say that to an Oireachtas committee. I do not accept the explanation the witnesses provided...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Of the notifications that have gone to the Garda, why did this only happen after the RTÉ documentary aired? Why did it not happen prior?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: HIQA was aware but it did not notify the Garda until after the broadcast.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: And what RTÉ is broadcasting, clearly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: The evidence would say otherwise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: On my final question, how many HIQA staff were previously employed in nursing homes that now have referrals to the Garda?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Will HIQA submit that information to the clerk of the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: And the level those individuals are working at within HIQA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: With a view to the clock, I will keep my questions to the point. The Minister of State spoke about urgency in expediting a commitment to an adult safeguarding Bill, but he has not given any definitive timeline for it. I put it to him that in the absence of the legislation, serious safeguarding issues are being dismissed as compliance issues, which is not reflective of what is happening in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Could I make a point on that issue? HIQA has said the event is referred to An Garda Síochána but where a staff member is operating with limited supplies because of the management and the directors, it is my firmly held belief that those directors should be held responsible for not supplying an adequate level of incontinence pads or sheets for a service for which the State is paying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I am conscious of time. I have just over two and half minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister make it an offence in legislation?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 145. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of recognised asthma centres that specialise in severe asthma that have and do not have a leading advanced nurse practitioner in post. [32917/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of ensuring an advanced nurse practitioner post at each recognised asthma centre that specialises in severe asthma. [32918/25]