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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Ward is substituting for Deputy Cullinane. He is very welcome. Apologies have been received from Senator Hoey. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, minutes of the committee meetings of 3 and 4 October have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of the meeting today is for the joint committee to consider the final report...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Hopefully, the roll-out of the RHA programme will improve the services. Mr. Walsh's opening statement referred to the 3,891 children waiting to be seen and the 10% increase in appointments offered. The latter is positive but I am thinking of the people listening at home with a child affected. Deputy Lahart referred to CHO 7 and the 364 children affected there. Can any positive news be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: I must stop there as we have gone over time. It sets us up well for the next meeting with the HSE. I really appreciate the witnesses coming in and answering the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senators Frances Black and Annie Hoey. Minutes of the committee meetings of September 26, 27 and 28 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of the meeting today is for the joint committee to consider the 2022 annual report published by HIQA as well as other reports published by the body. To assist the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Thank you, Ms Fitzgerald. You might indicate who you think would be best placed to answer the questions as part of the process. That would be really helpful. I will start with Senator Conway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Sorry, Senator Conway. Will you-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Before we leave this issue, and I know that this seems an obvious question, but how does HIQA differentiate between the permanent and the temporary facilities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Egan. Deputy Cullinane is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Hourigan. Will she confirm that she is on the Leinster House campus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: I propose that we take a comfort break for ten minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: We will now resume in public session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: I have a series of questions and then I will bring in Deputy O'Dowd. Again, the witnesses are very welcome this morning. It would be helpful for us if the witnesses could first address the complaints issue and expand on how they get those complaints. I am also conscious of the public role of this meeting; people might be listening at home and need to know how they can contact HIQA....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: I have another easy question. Are there other European jurisdictions or other jurisdictions where there is an equivalent to HIQA? Does HIQA have contact with them? Is there an organisation? Does HIQA exchange experiences and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Is there a particular country that would stand out? We always hear about the Scandinavian model and so on. Is it similar to this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: On the annual report, I am impressed by the section relating to numbers, inspections of health and social care settings and so on. There were 34,622 completions of human rights-based approach modules and 13,774 completions of an online learning course on adult safeguarding. It gives a sense of the amount of work that is done. I am conscious that when we hear about HIQA, we are usually...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: The reduction in the number of beds for older people has been mentioned by other members. On page 31, in respect of registered designated centres, HIQA makes the point that by the end of 2022 the number of beds had been reduced and was going in the wrong direction. That point has been made by members. Assaults on staff have been raised by Deputy Durkan and others. I looked at some of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: I was impressed with the national nursing home experience survey. As much as 90% of residents and 87% of friends stated they had a good or very good experience, which is really positive. It is probably not the result we expected because we, particularly as public representatives, hear the negatives rather than the positives. I will now discuss the negatives. One of HIQA's reports show...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: We are talking about fire safety standards, the rights of residents and the quality of buildings. There were very serious failings and I am interested to learn how many nursing homes were fully compliant. HIQA published some concerning reports at the start of September. They indicate that in some nursing homes the personal money of residents was, without their knowledge, being used to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: What about the spurious charges and a resident's family being charged for a specific type of mattress? Is HIQA aware of other instances?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Seán Crowe: Again, this may be a matter for legislators. This week, Mr. Finbarr Colfer, deputy chief inspector in HIQA, said "that people with disabilities living in congregated settings are at higher risk of receiving a poorer quality support that does not uphold their rights". Is that due to the lack of monitoring inspections during Covid? We know conditions deteriorated in some centres. What...