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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: This was in the programme for Government. Bearing in mind that we are four years in and Ms Larthwell stated a Bill is in development, how advanced is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: We are not even at a stage of a Bill being developed to deliver a statutory home care scheme or a statutory entitlement. The essence and core of the commitment given in the programme for Government was a statutory right to access care. Many of us supported Sláintecare and the right care in the right place at the right time. One of the core tenets of that was to deliver a statutory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: No, it is very clear. It was not wide-ranging. It is a statutory right to home care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: If it is a staged process, it is painfully slow. That is not what was envisaged as the first step. We were promised that the regulations would be developed in tandem with the other elements. A number of modules were promised that relate to the delivery of the statutory home care scheme. They are a statutory entitlement and there does not seem to be any development of that, apart from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: This is a matter for the Government as opposed to the witnesses but, at the same time, the programme for Government commitment is clear and here we are four years on. I want to deal with some elements and touch on a number of other issues. Why are personal assistance services not part of this? What is the difference between personal assistance services and home care services? I thought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: I think people who provide personal assistance services would disagree that they do not have a role to play in the home. There are a number of organisations that have written to us and lobbied us as members of this committee asking us to ask that very question. Why has the regulation of personal assistance hours or services been excluded? We are being asked to ask that question of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: As this Bill progresses, I imagine we will get more correspondence from people who are listening in to this session. I would say that many groups that have lobbied us on this issue will not be satisfied by those responses. However, we will take that up with the Minister whenever we get to the point of having a Bill to discuss with him. Is the fixed price authorisation scheme under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: There was an offer made in May of last year – an hourly rate. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: What was the hourly rate that was offered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: We got correspondence from the National Community Care Network, which is an umbrella group of the non-profit home care and support companies. I have a concern about developing the model around the private sector as opposed to seeing a model that develops public capacity and public health and social care services, which would be my preference. However, be that as it may, what I have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: They say it has to cover care staff wages, administration staff wages, training costs, which includes mandatory training, which we all would support, uniform and PPE costs, recruitment costs, insurance costs, rent and utilities. They have put it to us in writing, which I am putting to the witnesses, that many of their providers, which are non-profit providers, have actually been offered a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: I will ask a final question about safeguarding. Safeguards were mentioned in the context of the Bill but the whole concept of adult safeguarding is to protect an individual from potential neglect or abuse. We have seen some of that happen in nursing homes. The vast majority of nursing homes provide a very good service but there have been examples of neglect and abuse. It is the same in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: Did the witnesses consider it in the context of this Bill? Because it is not in it does not mean that should not be in it. Safeguarding is obviously very important. It has been the subject of a lot of public debate on how care is provided in this State. The vast majority of care, I would argue, is delivered to a very high standard, but where standards fall and where we have examples of...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: Fundamentally, this is a debate about sovereignty. It is about how sovereign states manage migration. It is, and should be, for every nation to determine its own migration and border policies. Ireland should have its own rules-based system that needs to be fair, efficient and enforced. A one-size-fits-all approach to migration throughout the European Union is not the best solution for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: 728.To ask the Minister for Health the number of authorised officers currently available for assisted admissions within the health service in Waterford city and county; if he considers this an adequate number; the steps he will take to ensure there is an adequate number of authorised numbers available in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: 729.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of authorised officers for the purposes of assisted/involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 2001 currently within the health service, by county and by CHO, in tabular form. [24902/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Delays will mean it is more costly-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Give over.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We are holding you to account.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

David Cullinane: How pathetic is that?