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Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Similarly, geriatricians and psychologists are omitted. Consistency of approach is important in acknowledging and respecting each of the health care professionals who work in front-line health services and who may form part of the multidisciplinary team, as required. The danger of a prescriptive definition in primary legislation is that it may be restrictive and could omit certain...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: I assure Senators that I gave great thought to their valuable contributions on Committee Stage. The care needs assessment is holistic in nature. It is broad and inclusive by virtue of the fact that any other matter that affects people's ability to care for themselves, as referred to in section 7(6)(d), the category concerning family and community care, and all such issues will be taken into...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: The Bill provides that the Health Service Executive may determine that a person is likely to require care services for the remainder of his or her life. This provision, in conjunction with section 3(2) of the Bill, acknowledges that the definition of long-term residential care services contains a minimum time period of 30 consecutive days. Its underlying intention is to enable the HSE to...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Section 7(13) provides for the content of a care needs assessment report to be provided for a nursing home with the prior consent of the subject of the assessment. I cannot accept the Senator's amendment because it does not respect the rights of the individual being assessed. The provision of a care needs assessment report for a nursing home ultimately is a matter for the individual or,...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Amendment No. 32 will put it beyond doubt that a specified person may consent to the sharing of a care needs assessment if the person who is the subject of the report lacks the capacity to so do.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Amendment No. 12 stipulates that the cap would be set at 15% of the market value of the principal residence at the time of the original application for State support. I will set out why I consider that the approach provided for in the Bill, as it stands, is fairer and more favourable for applicants. The cap is applied after the first three years of care. In the case of a single person, the...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: The legislation provides for a financial review. That is the most important aspect of it.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Yes.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: These technical amendments clarify matters in relation to the charging order and its release. Amendment No. 13 clarifies the authority of the Health Service Executive to make charging orders. Amendment No. 14 clarifies the responsibility of the Property Registration Authority to register charging orders submitted to it by the HSE. These amendments are being proposed on foot of observations...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Yes, amendments Nos. 22 and 23 are being read together.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Yes.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: No.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: On amendment No. 14 regarding the property registration authority, while it is acknowledged that this is a routine procedure, we would still like to have it specified explicitly in the primary legislation. On section 15(a), as I understand it, the Office of the Attorney General was concerned that this provision would be consistent with sections 16 and 26 in terms of the requirement to repay...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Amendment No. 17 obliges the court to have regard to the wishes of the person who is the subject of the application when appointing a care representative. The care representative has a very limited function under section 21 which extends only to matters relating to ancillary State support and the creation of a charge. However, the proposal represents a further safeguard for the person and...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: I understand the intent of amendment No. 25 is to provide for situations where a person is in nursing home care but could return to his or her community if sufficient community-based supports and services were in place. It stipulates that the HSE would offer to undertake a review of care needs every six months and no later than every 12 months to ascertain whether the person could move back...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: Amendment No. 31 limits the power of the National Treatment Purchase Fund to examine the records and accounts of approved nursing homes. The amendment is legally ambiguous, as the interpretation of what is reasonable could differ in the view of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the private nursing home. It would also be administratively cumbersome and time consuming. It would...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: This amendment clarifies and renders explicit the policy intention underlying section 47, namely, that a specified person may act on behalf of a person of diminished mental capacity in regard to any matter under the legislation apart from matters specified in section 47(9). The matters specified in section 47(9) are to act as a care representative and to request payment of ancillary support...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: The Parliamentary Counsel is happy that this will achieve the objective. We are not extending but merely clarifying the ability to act in line with existing policy intention. The determination of capacity under section 21 is separate to section 47 and the role of the specified person. The care needs assessment will consider capacity generally. Section 21 is concerned only with the...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (25 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Commissions of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jun 2009)

Áine Brady: The culture of the health service under which Mr. Shine worked has changed greatly to enhance transparency and to strive to ensure dignity and respect is an integral part of the ethos of health care agencies. An independent review group, chaired by Dr. Miriam Hederman O'Brien, was established in 1995 with the co-operation and support of the Department of Health and Children. As part of its...