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Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: I have a few questions for the witnesses, whom I welcome. The nursing home sector is important. As Mr. Daly stated, hospitals would effectively grind to a halt if the sector did not operate efficiently. When one considers that 30,000 people call one of the 458 private or voluntary facilities or the 122 public facilities home, it crystalises how important the sector is. That 79% of...

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Daly mentioned that the disparity had serious implications for quality. I am sure his members are complying with the HIQA standards as they should-----

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: -----but if the disparity is so large and the care needs of their residents are more complex and greater than those found in the public care system, how are the standards being maintained? Is there the potential for safety to be compromised?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: Is it then the case that the funding provided meets the needs of facilities? Let us leave aside the question of how much funding is going to the public sector. Is the funding level adequate to cover the services provided by Mr. Daly's members?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: By how much is the public sector overfunded per head?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: In Mr. Daly's opinion. His body conducted an analysis of its members. In terms of their operational costs, by how much are they underfunded, given an average spend of €35,000?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: How are businesses surviving if it is of that magnitude?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: At that magnitude, surely more will be closing on a regular basis.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: Towards the end of his report, Mr. Daly touched on the charges for the services being excluded under the nursing home support scheme. He outlined how it is explicit in what it provides, namely, basic care, bed and board, bedding and laundry but it does not include such basic things as newspapers, hairdressing, activities and transport. This is an issue I raised with the Ombudsman, Peter...

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: That is a hugely important point. If there is a situation where the Ombudsman is coming into a committee and saying that it is leading to the impoverishment of our elderly people and that their grandchildren have more money in their pockets than they do, it is not a case that they are living. They are just seeing out their time; it is like a jail sentence. I agree that it has to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: It would at least raise cause for concern.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: As the Chairman said, this petition went back and forth for analysis. This is rightly so because all parliamentarians meet parents in their constituency clinics who are trying to access services for their children. In that respect the response from the autism advocacy organisations was informative because they stressed the most important issue is being able to access the resources when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (13 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: 107. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation,(details supplied), the pharmaceutical industry and relevant stakeholders to ensure new medicines are available to persons with multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25740/18]

Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: Section 9 of the programme for Government deals with care for the elderly, specifically the investment required for 30,000 of our citizens whose home is now one of the 580 private or public nursing homes in this country. Last week members of the Committee on Public Petitions were addressed by the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall. He dealt with the issue of additional charges being levied on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (12 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for receipt of applications and announcement of successful projects under the €50 million large scale infrastructure fund; and the criteria that will apply for the type of projects that can be received. [25412/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (12 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact the draft regional spatial and economic strategy for the eastern and midlands area which sets out restrictive population numbers for County Meath will have on the completion of the second phase of the Navan to Dublin rail line project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25413/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: 467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received in 2017 and to date in 2018 for the community CCTV scheme; the number of applications received by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24428/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: 468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications which have been granted to date for the community CCTV scheme; the number of granted applications by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24429/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to date through the community CCTV scheme; the amount of funding allocated by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24430/18]