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- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I do not understand it. That is not my experience from talking to family members. I understand there are different levels of dependency and that some patients or residents have a much higher level of dependency than others. Some are confined to bed, others are not. Some need hoists, others do not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: They have not all been assessed as being highly dependent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: All of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Daly-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: -----we are getting tired and confused. Perhaps I am confused. Not all people assessed under the fair deal are regarded as high dependency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is what Mr. Daly is saying.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: All of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: No, we are not going off-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: While I may be wrong I can clarify this later with the National Treatment Purchase Fund. Just to be clear, there are different levels of dependency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Different people under those different levels qualify under the fair deal system. Not all of them are on the high level.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I understand
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: We are going off-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: We are going off-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: We are going off on a tangent. We can disagree on it and I can clarify it later. Mr. Daly is actually saying that all patients who qualify under the fair deal are high dependency. Am I right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I see the issues and we will be raising some of those. I am just trying to clarify. Mr. Daly is clearly telling us that the homes he represents have the same level of high dependency as the public nursing homes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Daly should listen to my question. I want to be fair. He said - he can take it back and I can-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: The homes Mr. Daly represents have the same level of high dependency for residents as the public nursing homes have.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Okay, that is very good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I am fully aware of that. I looked at the Health Service Executive arguments, which claimed there was a high level of dependency for various reasons in the public nursing homes which was one of many reasons that led to higher prices. Another was that its public nursing homes function in a different way. For example, the public nursing home in Carraroe has other functions. It runs a day...