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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: I call Deputy O'Connell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: In fairness, I have come across people who have looked for choices so it depends on the area and on the quality of service being offered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: I believe some people use HSE and privately delivered services. At certain times, for example, when the HSE service is not available people can receive the private service and vice versa.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: Sorry Senator Conway-Walsh-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: We will let Mr. Healy finish, after which Mr. Fitzgerald will contribute and the Senator can then speak again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: Which questions were not answered? The Senator might repeat them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: To clarify, the witnesses have said that there are now 50,500 people in receipt of homecare packages. What has that increased from? What was the previous figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: That corresponds to the demographic change in age etc.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: For 2019, if one was planning a budget, how will people be provided with homecare? There are currently 50,500.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: It is a fair point. Does Mr. McCarthy have anything to add?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Healy, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Crotty, Ms Metcalfe and Mr. McCarthy for their contributions. I certainly think it was a learning experience for all of us. The Law Reform Commission report on the regulation of home care providers has already been published. There is a draft Bill in place. I know the Department is working on this. However, I hope that, in the context of...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank her for dealing with this matter. The question I raise is in regard to homecare providers. A presentation was given recently to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health that I chaired on 29 May last at which homecare providers advised that they are finding it difficult to recruit people because of full employment and the fact that...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. There are two sides to this issue. One is about providing home care, which is a major challenge we now face. Home care providers have told me they cannot get people to work because if they employ them for three hours a day for five days a week, they will get no allowance of any description. They have said that if it was an hours-based system, they could get...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: I agree with what my colleague has said about the delays in the production of CervicalCheck files. One of the problems in the health service is that there has been very little computerisation of the system in recent years. Other countries, including Denmark, started to computerise records as long ago as 1996. By contrast, there has been little or no investment in the computerisation system...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: We are now paying the price in the health service. Every effort must be made to make sure there will be adequate computerisation of all medical records in order that delays like those which have occurred in this case do not recur. Every effort must be made to provide the files in a timely manner and on the earliest possible date. I have written to the Minister about a commitment given in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: I apologise for not being here earlier but I had to be in the Seanad for a Commencement matter. I have come across open disclosure on many occasions. If an incident occurs in which the medical team does not know exactly what went wrong, it can decide on an external review. However, I have seen cases where there was agreement as to who would carry out the review but where the HSE...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: I apologise for not being here for the submission made by Mr. Quinn. He said this will limit the power of the regulator to assess the fitness of individual senior managers in public hospitals. That goes back to my earlier question, when I pointed out that senior management overruled the advice of medical practitioners. If this is the situation under this legislation now, where senior...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: Would the witness prefer-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)
Colm Burke: Is there an appetite for incorporating the change HIQA is seeking?