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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1099. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for children in the children’s own homes and in which phase this activity can recommence. [5590/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for children in their own homes and in which phase this activity can recommence. [5591/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1101. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening of Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for the children of healthcare workers and in which phase of the plan this activity can recommence. [5592/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1102. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for the children of essential workers and in which phase of the plan this activity can recommence. [5593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1105. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the guidelines on childminders re-opening following this period of closure will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5556/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeals decision will be finalised for a person (details supplied) which was first submitted on 24 October 2019. [5688/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Mary Butler: The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection throughout Europe is no longer a distant theory. I understand that we are also making our plans here. It is imperative that nursing homes, residential homes and care homes be given much higher status when these plans are being drawn up. I welcome what the Minister announced in his opening speech, that there will be a nursing home...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I thank our witnesses for giving up their time and for coming in today. This awful pandemic has borne down heaviest on older people, particularly on those in nursing, residential and care homes. We have to be cognisant of the fact that 62% of all deaths that have happened so far have been in those settings and that 93% of all who have lost their lives so far are in the over 65 age bracket....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Would it be fair to say that Nursing Homes Ireland was initially disappointed? From the initial request on 28 February to 30 March, would it be fair to say that for Mr. Daly, as chairperson of Nursing Homes Ireland, which represents approximately 485 nursing homes in the sector, it was disappointing that it took four weeks for officials to meet with Nursing Homes Ireland?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Does Mr. Daly believe that NPHET realised the gravity and urgency of the situation facing nursing homes in the early stages? I know there were many calls, including from my colleague, Deputy Donnelly, for nursing homes to be represented on the NPHET taskforce. Does Mr. Daly believe it realised the urgency at the initial stage because we had all seen the pictures from Italy and Spain where...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I have another question on staffing issues during March and April. Mr. Daly mentioned in his opening statement that there was "aggressive recruitment of nursing home staff initially by the HSE". I have heard that from different nursing homes I spoke to. Can Mr. Daly expand on that? Was the recruitment above and beyond a general advertising campaign or did the HSE directly head hunt staff...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Now that we seem to have passed the peak, has the situation in regard to staffing in nursing homes improved? Are the nursing homes for whom Mr. Daly can speak preparing for a second surge?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Mr. Daly, in his opening statement, spoke about the National Treatment Purchase Fund, the authority responsible for the commissioning of nursing home care. We all understand how it works but Mr. Daly said it fell silent as homes incurred considerable and responsible costs to manage the pandemic. I accept the Minister came on board with a package. I also accept the fact that any expenses...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I will wrap up my questions to Mr. Daly before moving on to question Mr. Taylor. We will never know how Covid got into nursing homes, hospitals, homes and communities. We can only surmise. During the first three months of the year more than 2,500 people entered nursing home care under the fair deal scheme. Every month 1,000 people transfer from acute hospitals into private and voluntary...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Yes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I have a question for Mr. Taylor. I thank him for all the work he does advocating for older people. I have met him previously. Was he contacted by very many families, sons and daughters of people in nursing homes who are very concerned about their parents at this time? Unfortunately they have not been in a position to visit. I know nursing homes have done an awful lot of good work with...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: My first question is for the HSE. Mistakes are made in a time of crisis. The most important role of the committee and all of the stakeholders is that we learn to be better prepared in case we have a second wave, which is highly probable. In his opening statement this morning, Mr. Daly of Nursing Homes Ireland referred to aggressive recruitment of nursing home staff initially by the HSE....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Unfortunately it still happened and I believe Nursing Homes Ireland requested a moratorium regarding staff. I know the HSE cannot prevent a staff member moving to another job but at this time of an unprecedented pandemic it had a huge effect on the ability of nursing homes to be properly staffed during the peak of the crisis.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Does Mr. Walsh accept that patients being transferred in March and April from acute hospital settings to nursing homes should have been tested for Covid-19? Does he accept this non-testing would have contributed to higher mortality?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I want to reiterate the second part of the question. Does Dr. Kennelly accept that this non-testing, even after 18 March, would have contributed to higher mortality in nursing homes?