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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: I am not asking the witness to look back with the benefit of hindsight. I have said on previous occasions that people like Mr. Breslin and staff in the HSE were in a very difficult position when a virus came at us very quickly and real decisions had to be made in real time. Everybody accepts that, but we read hundreds of pages of correspondence, including emails, from March that seemed to...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: With respect, the Nursing Homes Ireland representative may have said all that but he also said that the sector was exasperated, that it felt let down and that it was put in a very difficult position when, as he put it, nursing homes were "crying out for help" in a range of areas and that support was not forthcoming. I think what he was saying was that in the latter stage, from March onwards,...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: -----but prior to that, there seemed, from the perspective of the sector, to be real difficulties and challenges.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: I will use one of Mr. Breslin's own analogies from a previous meeting in putting my next question. Does he believe that the HSE and the Department sent enough firefighters to support the residents of nursing homes? Does he accept any level of the commentary - criticism might be a strong word but, certainly, there were strong assertions - from the nursing home sector that there were real...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Breslin. I want to put one quick question to the HSE representatives if I can. It is not Covid-related but a response might be given to me in writing. A question was raised by Deputy Shanahan at the latest session in regard to the second catheterisation laboratory for Waterford. There is a bigger issue here concerning the national review of cardiac services. That review has...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Reid.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: We are joined by representatives from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to discuss childcare. I welcome, in committee room 1, Dr. Fergal Lynch, Secretary General, Ms Bernie McNally, assistant secretary, Dr. Anne-Marie Brooks, principal officer, Mr. Toby Wolfe, principal officer, and Mr. Mark Considine, principal officer. I wish to advise our guests that by virtue of section...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: I thank Dr. Lynch. Members will have between five and ten minutes, depending on the member. I will need to keep people to those times because everybody has indicated that they want to contribute. The first speaker is Teachta Funchion. She has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: The Deputy has been told that it will be a matter for him in the next Government.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: We will wait and see.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: Let us not be presumptuous. The next speaker is Deputy Costello and he has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: Teachta Sherlock has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: I thank Ms McNally. The next speaker is an Teachta Michael Collins.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: Our witnesses can take that as advice. I call Deputy Carthy.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: Deputy Colm Burke has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: The Deputy might be talking herself into a job. I am the next speaker and I have a number of questions for Dr. Lynch. Perhaps the ten minutes could be put on the clock. When they have lapsed, out session will be over. I have a follow-up question to that asked by Teachta Matt Carthy earlier, which I believe was not fully answered. The Deputy asked about the childcare scheme which was...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: As I only have ten minutes, I ask the witnesses to facilitate back and forth discussion. Dr. Lynch is in a different room and I am not sure whether he heard me.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: He stated that the Department identified risks and I understand that completely. The risks it identified related to insurance and the concerns raised by providers. He stated that he did not believe the scheme would fail. Did the scheme fail?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: No, it is a question for Dr. Lynch.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)
David Cullinane: Did the scheme fail?