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

Louise O'Reilly: Nursing homes were not instructed to - that is my point.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at correspondence sent by Mr. Daly on 10 March. He requested that all discharges would undergo a full risk assessment, a full medical assessment and be tested for Covid-19. I have been told by the Minister for Health as well that the protocol dictates that a patient discharged must have two negative tests prior to transfer. That did not happen in March. Am I right?

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

Louise O'Reilly: At the same time, staff were being aggressively recruited, to use the term Mr. Daly used. He called on the HSE to "desist from targeting the recruitment of staff from the private nursing home sector". These staff were being recruited by the HSE to go to the acute hospital sector at the same time as large numbers of patients were being transferred out. Is that right?

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

Louise O'Reilly: Nursing homes were losing staff at the same time as they were being asked to take on additional patients.

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

Louise O'Reilly: None of these patients was tested. The medical assessment and risk assessment that nursing homes had looked for were not taking place in March.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at correspondence from Mr. Daly. Chairman, I want to point out again, on the record, that we received a huge volume of correspondence at 9.30 this morning. It is not helpful. It is more helpful for us in doing our work if we get it in good time. I am looking at correspondence from Mr. Daly dated 17 March sent to the Department. Mr. Daly stated: We require a commitment to...

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

Louise O'Reilly: The first meeting was at the end of March, but how many times had Mr. Daly requested that meeting? We know that Nursing Homes Ireland issued a press release on 25 March, and we know from the correspondence that Mr. Daly made a large number of requests, but that meeting did not happen until the end of March.

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

Louise O'Reilly: That is fair enough. Regarding the number of discharges made at the very beginning, is it Mr. Daly's opinion that it is possible that in some instances the virus may have come into nursing homes via those discharges because of the lack of risk assessment, the lack of medical assessment and the failure to test prior to transfer?

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am only asking for Mr. Daly's opinion.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Daly says in his submission to us: Key State organisations left the nursing home sector and its residents isolated in those early days. The dismay will live forever with us. I will come to Mr. Taylor as well on this, but could Mr. Daly briefly describe the impact of having to deal in this environment not just with the deaths that happen but also with caring for those patients? I...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I like the Mother Jones quote to which Mr. Taylor referred, "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." It is very important. He described the impact on the residents and the staff and the relatives of the staff: "You have no idea how awful it is - it's horrific." As to what was happening at the time, what feedback was Sage Advocacy getting from residents and their families,...

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

Louise O'Reilly: As is their right.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am sharing time with Teachta Buckley and Teachta Quinlivan. I will have seven minutes and they will have four minutes each.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister for his response to the question we discussed on cancer screening. I have sent the names to him. I have a very brief question on the national children's hospital. After much discussion, construction has restarted. I would have thought the hospital would be a priority project. As I often say to my daughter, it is the thing that she is going to be paying for out of her...

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

Louise O'Reilly: The sooner it starts the better. We are going to pay for it. I wish to quote a text message I received from a cousin of mine, shortly after her father passed away in a nursing home: Is it the case that nursing homes were hit so hard because patients, some already showing signs of Covid-19 were transferred out of hospital to free up beds? They were not only moved once – in some...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Reid described the meeting on 19 February as "informal". He stated that Covid was not discussed. It is on the record of the House.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Can I request that the Minister find that out definitively?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Primary Medical Certificates (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if the criteria for the primary medical certificate will be reviewed and qualification criteria eased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8029/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the phase under which educational services and facilities that deliver measures for children with disabilities will be allowed reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8174/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of passengers who arrived through airports and seaports to date in May 2020; and the number who filled out a public health passenger locator form. [8177/20]