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Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: If I heard her correctly, the Minister of State indicated that adequate resources would be available to the HSE in order to allow it to monitor the position. That would not surprise me. Like Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, I have no faith in the HSE ensuring that adequate services are provided. In addition, I have no faith in the Minister for Health and Children who, as was the case with cervical...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: It is cold comfort.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: My amendment is of a similar ilk but seeks to make the timeframe even shorter at six weeks, which is reasonable. I would be happy if the Minister of State agreed to leave it at two months.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I do not accept the Minister of State's response. This is what is at the core of all that is wrong with our health service. It is a health system that seeks to serve itself, setting limits to protect itself but not patients. Those who will be adjudged to be no longer in an acute bed will attract charges while the HSE is protected by the legislation.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I will not push my amendment No. 8 on that basis too.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 12, lines 38 to 41, to delete all words from and including "person" in line 38 down to and including "assessment." in line 41 and substitute the following: "representative of the Health Information and Quality Authority.". Earlier I alluded to the need for independent assessments. There is a precedent for people not being diagnosed appropriately. Sometimes...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister of State has rejected what I have said in relation to the independence of the medical assessment. Amendments Nos. 84 and 85 again refer to an independent third party appointed by HIQA, although not necessarily of HIQA. I believe these are safeguards towards the independence of the process. I cannot accept they are a waste of resources, and if ensuring independence of the...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I reject the bureaucracy charge. I am looking for independent assessment.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I support Deputy Jan O'Sullivan in respect of this matter. I am of the view that amendment No. 10 should be accepted. A person's medical circumstances could change dramatically but, under the legislation, the review will not take place for six months. The period is far too long and it must either be shortened or a provision put in place to take account of a change in a person's medical...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: Please do so.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: The Lord giveth and the Minister taketh away.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: Indeed, and those who have inherited it like to hold onto it and not have it taken from them by the Minister and the Revenue Commissioners. Regarding what Deputy Ó Fearghaíl said, in sections 7(8) and 7(9), the Minister gives the lie to the fact she is taking into consideration the matters raised by Deputy Connaughton and others. She has raised the issue and then, in section 7(8), she...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: We are curtailed by time. There are many elderly people in the country who have been encouraged to let younger people on the land or who have let their land. Are they being described in 8(b), which states, "a substantial part of the working day of the person requiring care services or his or her partner was regularly and consistently applied to the farming of the farm"? What interval does...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: The Department was not meant to see that as exclusive. I hate to interrupt the Minister of State and I have not done so before. She is intimating that the IFA may have asked that sudden illness be taken into account but it did not ask that this would be the only way illness would be taken into account. The Minister of State has reversed its request to exclude 99% of people in this position.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: Unfortunately, that may not happen. People like the security the farm provides.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 11: In page 13, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "(9) Any determination made under subsection 8 may be revised where the person's care services needs materially alter.".

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I appreciate the Minister has moved some way to meeting our concerns with some of the amendments she alludes to. Some amendments were discussed earlier in a batch rather than individually. I seek indulgence to be able to go through these amendments as some are without objection from me as the Minister of State has come some of the way. If I looked for 15 days, for example, the Minister of...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: My amendment No. 17 seeks to ensure there is an identifiable individual, not necessarily from the HSE, and that there is some onus of responsibility placed on some third party to ensure people get the requisite help needed. Some mechanism should be in place which would allow an identifiable third party, say a family solicitor or the executor of a will, to represent a patient who has become...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 18: In page 14, line 34, to delete "6" and substitute "3". I still am not happy and will press the amendment to a voice vote. Question, "That the figure proposed to be deleted stand," put and declared carried.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 19: In page 14, line 38, to delete "6" and substitute "3". Question, "That the figure proposed to be deleted stand," put and declared carried.