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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Superlevy Fine (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is there an issue in the repayment by instalments being factored into the Department budget for this year? Is the money required for other schemes? Is it an issue or is the Minister satisfied that this is progressing in the way he expected? I presume from the Minister's reply that the sharp fall in the global price of milk had a bearing on how this was handled and that is why people were...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: When I first raised this issue in the House in 2014, following my reading of newspaper reports based on the research done by Catherine Corless at the time, I called for the site at Tuam to be immediately declared a crime scene. I called for the site to be sealed and for forensic anthropologists and anything else needed to be made available in order to uncover this atrocity, and make no...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I do not propose to repeat the comments of previous speakers. Does the committee have any responsibilities in respect of the Charities Regulator given that the individual who we have been discussing is still active? It would be unconscionable if the same mistake were to be repeated.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I accept that fair procedure must be followed but our difficulty is that fair procedure is also required for the terms of reference that are being decided today. The timing is critically important if those terms of reference are to be right. I have a real issue with fair procedure and getting the terms of reference right from the perspective of the people who will be subject to this...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously standards have changed and a lot of that is welcome as regards people sharing and so on. We can see the 80:20 ratio between private and public and Mr. Healy has told us that there is a loss of beds. He has also identified capital needs for the 20% to bring them up to standard. Has the HSE actually opened any new beds or are there proposals to open any new beds under the public system?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There are some good examples in both the public and private sectors. However, the private sector may determine the location of nursing homes. In my own area, for example, there are quite a lot of nursing home facilities and people from Dublin will be located in County Kildare because of that. Some of that has to do with the availability of land. Some of the facilities tend to be on the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The HSE will scope out a value-for-money audit of the fair deal scheme. What will be included in that audit? Is it only a value-for-money audit or is there a quality-of-life element? There is a demand in that regard. For example, nursing home care has been identified as inappropriate for approximately 2,500 people, but there is no alternative. Is the HSE looking at a statutory element...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the officials for those replies. I wish to go back over some of the questions that were asked earlier about the fair deal scheme. When the scheme was initiated, property values were very different. Later on, the economic crash changed the potential income so the scheme varied a bit. If I remember rightly, a more forensic approach was then taken to people qualifying. In his...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If somebody qualifies for the fair deal scheme and go in for six months or a year, how is that calculated?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Okay, so there is no advantage to the HSE?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I just wanted to be sure about that. As regards people who are funded, St. Raphael's is in my constituency and people are in residential places there, but it is a different thing entirely. I wish to ask about the adequacy of funds in this regard. I have come across situations where people have been asked to provide money for a new mattress. How does Mr. Healy measure the adequacy of the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: As I understand it, 18 of the 32 administrative recommendations on financial assessments have been finalised. Have they been implemented at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The recommendations that have not been-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Healy have a timeline for the completion of that work?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, there is a choice within a choice here in terms of the availability of beds. However, real choice is about having a policy position relating to older people and people with high dependency. It is all very well giving people a choice but not if they do not want that choice. At what point do those two things converge, in terms of policy? In terms of the public consultation...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Does the HSE look at geographic locations? The ideal is for someone to be able to get out, to potter around, get to the shops and so forth rather than being isolated. Are such issues taken into consideration? Does the HSE look at integration within communities and enabling people to live, as opposed to just existing?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department that the Chief State Solicitor's Office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department that the Chief State Solicitor's Office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017. [12775/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department, on which the Office of the Chief State Solicitor has incurred expenses, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred, respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department, on which the Office of the Chief State Solicitor has incurred expenses, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three...