Results 141-160 of 760 for speaker:Pádraig Rice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: If members want witnesses to respond to their remarks or questions, they have to leave time for that as well. That is included in the five minutes. We can come back to it afterwards. Members should bear that in mind. The next slot is for the Social Democrats, which is my time. I will pick up on one of the earlier points about sanctions. Ms Fitzgerald said that HIQA did not have the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Am I right in thinking that the ultimate is forced closure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: What then? HIQA has forced the closure, but what sanctions are beyond that if there are not fines or repercussions for the providers? Can a private provider then just reopen in a different location? Does HIQA make referrals to the Garda? Has it done that in the past? Does HIQA need powers beyond that? Does it need the power to have sanctions around fines and forcing somebody not to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: HIQA needs additional powers to regulate those companies above the companies-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Separately, the concern many people had was that, if I am correct, Beneavin Manor was found largely compliant in November 2024. Is that true? We then had the RTÉ programme, which exposed serious and grave concerns. How did that happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Just so I am correct, your contention is that you stand over the inspections and there was not a particular failing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: You do not think there is a failing in the inspection model.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: There is a sense that concerns were raised and protected disclosures were made but it took the airing of a TV programme to get an adequate response. That is a contention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Concerns raised by whistleblowers and protected disclosures were not taken seriously enough, and it took RTÉ exposing this for us to get an adequate response. We have just 20 seconds left, so we might get a quick response.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: We will move to the next topic. We can return to this again. Our next speaking slot is for Fianna Fáil. I call Senator Costello.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: You have ten seconds left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I ask that Ms Cliffe keep her response brief because we are out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I remind the Deputy his time is for witnesses to answer as well. He will need to give them some time to respond. There is only one minute and 40 seconds left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: The Deputy can continue but he has only one minute and thirty seconds left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: That is the end of the Deputy's time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I thank the Deputy. I remind members that in the interests of fairness, if they are going to pose questions to the witnesses, they allow time in their slot to answer those questions. I said that at the start. There is no time remaining in that slot for the witnesses to answer those questions. In the interests of fairness, we need to allow the people we have invited in time to answer the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: There are three members remaining and just 15 minutes left so we will stick to five minutes for the final three slots. The next slot is Fine Gael and Senator Boyle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: That brings us to the end of all of our speakers. I thank the representatives from HIQA for their time today, for the work that went in advance preparation for the opening statement and for their consideration of all the questions we had today. After today's session members may have additional questions. There was a lot in that session that needs to be teased out. With witnesses'...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Thank you Deputy. We were clear it was five minutes per speaker. If you want to use your five minutes making a statement and leaving no time for answers, that is your prerogative but you do have to allow time for the witnesses to respond to the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Yes. Absolutely, Deputy. We now have another session with the Minister of State.