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

Bríd Smith: Was Mr. Walsh brought on to NPHET specifically for this issue?

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

Bríd Smith: That is fine. I will run out of time.

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

Bríd Smith: It is clear that prior to Mr. Walsh coming on to the committee there is no mention of care of the elderly in the NPHET minutes. Despite this being a global phenomenon, it seems to have gone under the radar. In the first three months of this year, 2,500 people were transferred from acute hospital settings into nursing homes under the fair deal scheme. Can Mr. Walsh tell me how many of...

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

Bríd Smith: Could he get that detail for us? I find it surprising that he does not know how many patients were moved from acute hospitals to nursing homes, having been or not been tested.

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

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Walsh. My next questions are to HIQA. In its statement, HIQA said it told the HSE about specific homes. What specific homes did it warn the HSE about? Did it warn the HSE about specific homes and what action did the HSE take on foot of that? The statement also said that HIQA told the HSE where the homes were. Does that mean HIQA told it where all of the homes all over the...

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

Bríd Smith: Can I ask one final question?

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

Bríd Smith: I lost seconds because of the Chairman's intervention.

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

Bríd Smith: I am not asking for names. I want one short message from the HSE. Is it now testing staff before they take up roles in nursing homes?

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

Bríd Smith: Until 12 March, the HSE was not testing staff in nursing homes. Then, the testing started after we raised the issue here in the Dáil. Is the HSE now, this day, currently, testing staff who enter nursing homes to take up a job?

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

Bríd Smith: It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: All members have been sent the submission from the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland that contains many photographs of the interiors of direct provision centres. As soon as I saw how cramped and crowded and on top of each other people were, it reminded me of playing house as a kid, with bricks and stones and lumps of planks, and of pushing everything together so we could all lie down...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: That is fine. The point I want to make is that if it is not their job to query that advice, it is their job to look after the occupants of direct provision. I am of the view that those two things are contradictory. The Minister recently stated on radio that they are in his care and if anyone works for the Minister, surely their care should matter to those who look after them. On 12...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The letter stated there is clear evidence that some residents are not following the public health recommendations and because social distancing is not being followed by everybody, the lockdown has to be extended for 14 further days. That sounds like they are being blamed for their own plight. I repeat to the witnesses that these centres are totally inadequate for the purposes of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Did the committee write this and order it to be sent to the residents in Cahersiveen?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: It stated that it was a notice to all residents of the Skellig Star accommodation centre.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The evidence shows everybody should be moved out of that direct provision centre and alternatives provided. That would be the solution to this horrendous mess and the inhumane conditions these people are being forced to live under, and God knows for how long more. None of us knows when this pandemic is going to subside or become a thing of history.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. If we run out of time, I will accept written answers from the Minister. Earlier I heard one of the Fianna Fáil Deputies say it is impossible to get everything right during a pandemic. Nobody doubts that, but I wish to talk again today about how wrong we got the care of our elderly. Yesterday showed me that the model of an overwhelmingly...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I have no questions that require an answer now, but I wish to make a few comments on the climate crisis in light of the Covid-19 crisis. It has been said by many commentators that the Covid-19 pandemic is only a slight foretaste of the type of disruption to society and economics that we can expect as we move further down the road to catastrophic...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (27 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the impact on applicants that need or seek a new or renewed visa application after 20 May 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7197/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (27 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 519. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent transfer of land earmarked for the development of the new national maternity hospital by an organisation (details supplied); if the land will be owned by the State or owned by an organisation and leased by the State; if it is leased, the terms and duration of the lease; and if the organisation will have a mandate or influence in...