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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Thank you very much for your help and for answering my questions as well as those of the committee. We look forward to receiving the documentation. I am sorry it is probably extensive but we will accept as much as Nursing Homes Ireland can provide.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I welcome Mr. Phelim Quinn, CEO of HIQA and Ms Mary Dunnion, chief inspector of social services and director of regulation at HIQA. I thank them for joining us in the Dáil Chamber. We are joined from committee room 1 by three representatives from the HSE: Mr. David Walsh, national director of community operations; Ms Sandra Tuohy, assistant national director of older persons services...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Quinn for limiting his opening statement to five minutes. I call Deputy O'Dowd.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask our guests to be brief because we are over time.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Were those judicial reviews successful or unsuccessful?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am not sure it is appropriate to refer to a particular nursing home.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: In fairness to Deputy McGuinness, he had a question which Dr. Kennelly did not hear because there are sound problems. Could the Deputy repeat it?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask Dr. Kennelly to send that guidance to the committee.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: It might cause a public health risk if we were all to crowd into a committee room. We are limited in terms of what we can do and how we do it. Deputy McGuinness queried the appropriateness of inspectors being allocated to certain care institutions and asked whether it should be done on a random basis. What is Ms Dunnion's view in that regard?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I call Deputy Duncan Smith of the Labour Party.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask that particular institutions not be named, if possible.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I understand Ms Sandra Tuohy, assistant national director for older persons services, wants to answer Deputy Smith's question. Is that correct? I was told by the secretariat that Ms Tuohy wished to speak. If I am incorrect in that, we can move on.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: You are out of time.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: The reason I intervened was that you asked the witnesses to name particular people. You are in the Chamber longer than I am.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Please be brief in your answer, Dr. Kennelly. We may get an answer in more detail by way of correspondence.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I do not know whether it is a sound problem or a more general communication problem. Please be very brief and maybe provide a more detailed answer by way of correspondence.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Thank you, Dr. Kennelly. If you wish to provide more information by way of correspondence, that is fine.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I apologise for bringing witnesses in and not giving them more time to answer. We simply do not have more than two hours. The Regional Group is next and Deputy Shanahan has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I would ask that any questions not answered in a minute and a half be answered by way of correspondence.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Next is Sinn Féin. For how long is Deputy Doherty speaking?