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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I can see the committee is kind of balanced, in terms of some of the views coming out, that it does not like private sector home care. A member of my family was in receipt of private sector family home care and that care was second to none. The employees were an absolute credit to the provider. I wish to put that on record. I am told the HSE pays, on average, €30 to €32...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: That would be helpful. There is so much to get through. The representatives of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland raised the issue of the low levels of training. There is a specific aspect of that I wish to raise. I am wondering what is being done about it because it came up at a meeting of another committee that I attended in respect of gender equality. It is quite a significant issue....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: Is there awareness of the gender issue, which is an emerging one? It only came up last year in the context of another issue. It took me by surprise but it is actually quite obvious. Particularly with older people, it can be a very private and personal thing because of the generation from which they come.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have a final question, if I may.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have received a couple of queries about why people cannot choose their own home care provider when they know someone locally, in cases where the HSE cannot allocate one to them. In my constituency, I have become aware of the issue of childcare. I happen to be the director of a social enterprise. We are not big on social enterprise in Ireland. In Ireland we tend to associate enterprise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I would like to mention another issue which may not appear to be connected but is. A PhD student in my constituency came to me recently with a very detailed and interesting questionnaire about our housing stock. I thought it was about social housing stock, but it was about housing stock in a particular part of the constituency from the point of view of people being able to remain in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: Very often local government intervenes when a person becomes less able or incapacitated and it is almost at the point of crisis. All of the witnesses who came before the committee today could offer something really valuable in terms of how the State could anticipate that in order to ensure it is possible for people to stay in their homes for as long as possible. What is the experience of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have had direct experience of the issue of travel. Carers are predominantly female. Depending on when shifts end, in a 24-hour shift divided between people, a young woman could leave a house in a particular area at 10 p.m. or midnight. Given the focus on events arising in the past month, what kind of concerns do care workers express about that? I am sure there is some kind of preference...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: The travel issue has been a major factor in the contributions from NGOs at this meeting. The compensation piece does not seem to be equitably distributed across HSE regions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his strategy to support students impacted by domestic violence including access to SUSI supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6372/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to encourage and support students of DEIS schools to access further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6373/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 719. To ask the Minister for Health if National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, has carried out an up to date evidence-based risk assessment and risk-benefit analysis on the imposition of mask mandates in retail and other settings, particularly bearing in mind the recent lifting of restrictions. [6464/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET carried out an up to date evidence-based risk assessment and risk-benefit analysis on the continuing imposition of face mask wearing by children in schools and other settings. [6465/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 726. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which NPHET states that mask use should continue in schools and other settings in view of the removal of the requirement in the UK and many other countries. [6471/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 724. To ask the Minister for Health the studies and data that have been relied upon by NPHET to form the basis for the statement that Covid-19 still poses a risk to public health and that the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 can be expected to continue (details supplied). [6469/22]