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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Okay, but what I am looking for is simple. I am looking for the total figure paid out in settlements. I am not looking for any individual cases. Regarding the 100 cases that have been settled, I just want the global figure paid out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Mr. Watt does not have that figure today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I beg Mr. Watt's pardon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Why would Mr. Watt not be allowed to give it? This is taxpayers' money that has been paid. I am not looking for any specific case. I am just looking for the global figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Why then can Mr. Watt not give us the figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: What is the reason? What is the rationale for not giving the figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Yes, but what I am-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: -----looking for is what has been paid out to date in cases that have been settled. I am not talking about anything current. If a case has been settled, then it is history. It is not an ongoing legal engagement, so the case is history. Surely to God Mr. Watt can give us the figure for historical cases that have been settled.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Now, that is for the disability issue and that is separate. What I am looking for is information concerning the nursing homes. I think it is an outrage that Mr. Watt is not prepared to give us that figure here at this committee today. So be it, he is not. If Mr. Watt had been Secretary General back then, would he have agreed to settle these cases? I ask this because if we were to extend...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: The cases in terms of the people who were in private nursing homes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Mr. Watt cannot give us an indication as to whether he believes it was the correct policy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Have any cases been settled recently, in the time since Mr. Watt took over as Secretary General of the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Moving onto people with intellectual disabilities and so on, does Mr. Watt believe proper advocacy structures are in place for people with intellectual disabilities within institutions? Is there a proper structure and proper advocacy to ensure their interests are protected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Just reflecting on the engagement by Deputy Cullinane and others, there are many more people who were possibly entitled to compensation but did not get it. That is possibly because there was not a proper advocacy structure there. Are the structures that are in place at the moment adequate? Does the HSE need to review that and put a more formalised structure in place as opposed to a mishmash...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Mr. Watt thinks the structures there are adequate.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rail Network (21 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I am raising the issue of Crusheen railway station for a number of reasons. It was closed in 1976 but the infrastructure remains. It is not a big issue to reopen it. It should be reopened simply because the rail line between Limerick and Galway is now extremely successful. I take the train from Ennis to Dublin every week. I take it in both directions. I get it from Ennis to Limerick and...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rail Network (21 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, the contents of which I note and am not 100% happy with. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is talking about opening new rail links and lines the length and breadth of the country. He is even talking about opening a rail line between Ennis and Shannon, and between Shannon and Limerick. I welcome that and it is an excellent proposal. He is talking...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rail Network (21 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I would like to pass on my sympathies to the family in Cork of Bishop David O'Connell who was brutally murdered in Los Angeles. This is a shocking crime and I hope that the perpetrator is brought to justice as quickly as possible. I want to raise the need for a veterinary college in the mid-west. The University of Limerick is very keen to press ahead with plans to establish a veterinary...