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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: No, but I am just saying that is how ridiculous the situation is at the moment. Anyone from a criminal background can come in and you are letting this person into your home and allowing them access to a lot of things. There is a clear need for regulation in this regard. Is there Garda vetting for many of these providers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: We would hear of nursing homes and sharp practice. There is an entertainment allowance that is charged and there are products that are used, for example, soap and toilet roll. These are the things that go on in nursing homes. If the bed used is a particular type of bed, that is part of the charge. These are some of the sharp practices and they surprise a lot of people. The response often...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: The most important thing is that if we do set up the regulation, HIQA is in the position to follow through. I presume that will mean additional resources. Is there anything else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: Do the witnesses wish to add anything else? No. I thank the Department of Health and the Institute of Public Health for assisting the committee in its pre-legislative scrutiny of the health (amendment) (licensing of professional home support providers) Bill 2024. The committee will be giving further consideration to this matter and will conclude its work on it as soon as possible. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: I will give an example. There is one product that does an assessment of a person and determines if they need an incontinence pad. The current regulations, as far as I am aware, are that a person must be checked on every couple of hours. This technology can pick up the scent or whatever else, so there would not be the necessity, for instance, to wake someone up in the middle of the night to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: 109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has had discussions with transport providers to increase the capacity of the bus network in the Crooksling area to allow for the increase in usage by the IPAS residents in the area. [27156/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: 480. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of vacant medical post vacancies in the CHO7 area, categorised by position, in tabular form; and the total number of assigned medical posts in the CHO7 area, categorised by position. [27157/24]

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: Adequate home care provision allows older people to live with dignity and respect in their own homes. Additional supports also contribute to, and are vital for, independent living. The Government has often repeated there is a commitment to introduce a statutory scheme to support people to live in their own homes and Government members cite the fact that it is in the programme for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter. Ideally, it would be helpful if a Minister from the Department of Health were present, but there is a certain urgency about this case. I would appreciate it if the Minister of State could feed what I am about to say to his colleagues in that Department. I am concerned about the lack of a dietician in CHO 7 and what this means for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: The Minister of State indicated that progress has been made, but this family will want to know when that happened. It is all part of a much wider issue of failing to fill key posts across the health system which is creating massive gaps in service provision. This is just one case of a baby who cannot get access to a dietician at this stage of their development but the lack of public nurses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy David Cullinane and Deputy Patricia Ryan will substitute for him. I propose we go into private session to consider briefly the business of the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: The minutes of the meeting of 19 June have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the healthcare and related needs of older persons and the general scheme of the health (amendment) (licensing of professional home support providers) Bill 2024, of which the committee is carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny. To continue our consideration of the matter, I am pleased to welcome from ALONE Mr. Seán Moynihan, chief executive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. I invite the members of the committee to discuss the matters raised. I call Senator Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: So independent living, which is great. Deputy Patricia Ryan is next to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: Was that Willie Bermingham?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: I will make a couple of points. On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for their submissions and the work ALONE does on behalf of the 36,000 older people it supports to age at home through the whole concept of independent living. I congratulate ALONE on its initiative in relation to a loneliness task force and pulling together a coalition. This is very important work. While we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: It is increasingly common that we hear of people dying in their home and they are found three or six months later or even 12 months. That was one of the driving influences behind ALONE, where Willie Bermingham came across people in various situations as part of his work and had the foresight to establish the organisation. It is a challenge. Instead of things improving, it seems like...