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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: Four thousand three hundred positive cases. Is that the number for staff? What is the breakdown between staff and residents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: Those are very high numbers. We obviously have had very high levels of community transition but the number of outbreaks in nursing homes at the moment, amounting to over 190, is very high. I wish to ask Ms O'Neill about crisis management. I have engaged with many groups that are raising concerns, from the Irish Association of Social Workers to Sage Advocacy and Care Champions. I want to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: Who is responsible for the implementation of the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: Am I correct that the HSE has responsibility for oversight?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: I am talking about private nursing homes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: One of the things we have learned, from the expert panel report and the Covid committee when it was in place, is that the clinical governance arrangements between private nursing homes and the HSE need to be improved. We need consider that relationship very carefully. On outbreak management and crisis management, I have been contacted by staff in many nursing homes who have expressed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: I have a few more questions because I am not satisfied with the answer to the effect that it is more complicated than suggested. Most reasonable people would say there has to be a basic, minimum staff-resident ratio in any setting to ensure the optimum and highest levels of care. If the threshold falls below what I, Ms O'Neill and most reasonable would consider to be a minimum, then we have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: The families tell me they cannot even get through on the telephone and get basic information. The loving and watchful eyes of loved ones and family members are not there. This is important when we talk about residents in care. That is not to say people do not get care when they are in nursing homes. Of course they do. We also know there have been instances of neglect and abuse. When one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: Can I ask Ms O'Neill a straight question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: My time is very short-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: I must come back in because our time is very short. We have ten minutes to ask questions and we really need more distinct answers from the witnesses. We are raising important issues. I want to put a question to Ms O'Neill. I appreciate the responses I have been given. I must ask these questions on behalf of all the families and groups I have interacted with over the last number of weeks...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: When was the last time the HSE met any of those groups?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: I wish to refer to the Irish Association of Social Workers and Care Champions so the organisations that are representative of residents and their families. When was the last time that the HSE sat down and engaged with them, and heard their stories and experiences?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: That is not the question I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: When was the last time the HSE formally met representatives of the Irish Association of Social Workers and Care Champions?
- Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: This motion seeks fair play. Time and again the Government says that the Opposition does not come forward with solutions. We do come forward with solutions, but the problem is that the Government does not like them. The Government does not listen and it does not act. The Minister's party has no regard for what I would consider to be fair play; if it did, it would support this motion....
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: No. I was the first to come in and put my hand up this morning-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: No, not on this issue.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, please, a Chathaoirligh.