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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Deputy, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I understand how passionate you-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: -----and every other member is going to be about it this morning. Will you let me chair the meeting? You have asked the question. Will you please let the person respond? You are out of time, by the way, but I am allowing you-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I am allowing you to ask the question. You have gone beyond your time. I ask that you please give respect to the witnesses and let them respond. Does Dr. O'Brien wish to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Okay. I need to move on to Deputy Shortall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: This is the Deputy’s last question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: The Deputy has one last question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I am moving on to Deputy Hourigan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: When the Deputy asks a question could she let the witness respond, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Gino Kenny is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: Thank you. I call Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I will move on. Senator Black is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: When does the HSE expect to close the Owenacurra centre? It was said earlier that there are 15 residents at the moment, that two are expected to move in the next week, that here have been honest and open discussions and that six are moving to nursing home care. In response to a question from Deputy Stanton, it was said that no one would be forced from the premises. Does the HSE have a date...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: What is the average length of time the current residents have been living there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: There are people there who would consider it their home. I was struck by the reference to moving to "high-support hostels". We are talking to families about moving a loved one from their home to, in some cases, a high-support hostel. The word "hostel" is jarring for anyone listening at home and for me. It signals a change that would be clearly unacceptable to many of those families. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: The other point that jumped out at me was that numbers were expected to decline. Is there an expectation that demand for services will decline in County Cork or in east Cork? I would have thought that demand was increasing in the context of a growing and an ageing population and demand would be expected to increase rather than decrease, which is why that statement jumped out at me. Ms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: We are running out of time but Deputy Ward has been waiting patiently since the start of the meeting to contribute. I invite him to do so now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I do not know if Mr. Fitzgerald wants to add anything else to what he has said. I am about to bring the meeting to a close. Is there anything else he wants to add?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Fitzgerald and his team for the time they have given us today and for turning up last week in the middle of a storm. On behalf of the committee, I thank them for their attendance today. It is the committee's view that we do not want to see any facilities closing down. We want to hear news of more facilities opening. This is a difficult time for the families and loved ones of...