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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome our guests. It is estimated that 195,000 carers provide a minimum of 6.6 hours of care per week. I think that was the metric cited. Does that include people who are receiving the full or partial carer's allowance? Is that how the statistic is measured? What is the number of people cared for? I presume that in some cases more than one person is being cared for in a particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Is there a reason the Department has not attempted to put a value on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It is important in doing budgets and it would justify things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: The Chair rightly made the distinction that I did not make clear when I put the question between those who receive carer's allowance and those who do not. There is a figure of 195,000 carers providing 6.6 million hours of care, an average of 38 hours per carer. Some are getting some kind of carer's allowance and many are not because they fall below the threshold due to their existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Of those 195,000 carers, how many would get some kind of allowance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome our guests and speakers. Perhaps they could give us some assistance on the figures for all of this with regard to the demographics and where they are going, if possible. We heard earlier that there are approximately 195,000 people giving care at an average of 38 hours per week. It is approximately 6.6 million hours of care. There is a larger number receiving care. In some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I have to confess that I would certainly need more than five minutes to go through the various allegations, implications and inaccurate assertions I have heard in this session alone. I will try my best to address the main points, which is that this committee has hastily but all too belatedly convened a session because it knows that the cat is out of the bag about the flawed processes and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I will resume this at a later date if that is possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I do not want to hold up our guests. We have a guest who wants to go to the airport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I would need at least twice as much of the time I have used to speak so far, so I would favour a more extended debate on this issue. I am happy to oblige the Chairman and the guest who must get to the airport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I have a question for the Chairman. I actually did a lot of preparation for this meeting and even when I am not present in the room I am willing to bet with my colleague across the floor that I am every bit as informed of the issues raised by witnesses as he himself is. Leaving that aside, however, I wish to ask the Chairman if she intends to return to this at a later point or whether I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I never denied that the Chairman had a difficult job but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I want to ask a question. This is unfair. The Chairman called a meeting to discuss whether there was bias. It adds another instance of bias if we are not able to deal-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I have a list of evidence. This is why we had a press conference in the first instance. One cannot tease out matters at this committee. The debate slows down the minute everyone has-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: We all need as much time as we need.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I do not begrudge anyone else his or her time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: May I say something?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Is the Chair ruling that there is to be no further discussion on this? I have not been given an opportunity to put many individual concerns on the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I have approached the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I did the work.