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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Just on different levels of dependancy, what was said previously was that in private nursing homes as in public nursing homes the same level of high dependency exists. Indeed, everyone except for social cases that are assessed under fair deal, are all high dependency. Is that a correct statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely. Then there is a clinical assessment. Am I wrong in understanding that there are different levels of dependency within that clinical assessment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: So different homes would have a number of residents, some with higher levels of dependency than others.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Fitzgerald in a position to comment on private nursing homes as opposed to public ones in respect of the highest level of dependency?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: On the 80-20 balance, I have asked before who has decided it. Has it happened just by default?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I saw the bed stock being reduced. I saw St. Francis's home. The Chairman is gone but he has fought a battle for Abbeyleix at the same time. In the week it was close, the HSE made an announcement that there were not enough public beds, which was particularly difficult to accept at the time. What is the proper balance? What is the policy that the HSE has been given by the Government?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That would have happened in respect of a home in Oughterard in Galway. Is Mr. Fitzgerald familiar with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: My final question before I go back to Mr. Horan is to ask why beds remain empty in public nursing homes if there is no distinction and if each patient is assessed under fair deal. If every resident is assessed, that is income for the home whether it is public or private, is that not right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: We have a situation in Carraroe in the heart of the Gaeltacht where I have lost track of how many beds are empty - I think it is 13 - while the hospital is at crisis point. Why would that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Public or private.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Only limited by geographic accessibility.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: In terms of choice of private nursing homes coming forward for assessment, is that down to the price negotiated as was said previously? Is it open to every single nursing home to come under fair deal?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I am just going to go back for my last ten or 15 minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Going back to the National Treatment Purchase Fund accounts, the rent is extraordinary. It is on page 17 of the financial statement. The rent and the increase are extraordinary. The rent for 2015 was €442,897 and it has gone up to €603,805. Can Mr. Horan explain that, please?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: While he is doing so, the professional expenses have significantly jumped from €61,624 - have I got the witnesses' attention or am I losing them? We are looking at page 17.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: On page 17 we see huge changes in office rent and professional expenses. Advertising and promotion shows a huge increase. I have mentioned the office. Professional services have gone from €61,624 up to €414,941. Advertising and promotion has gone from around €8,000 to around €78,000. Can we take those three and see what explanation we can have?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Could Mr. Flood say that again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Could we get a list of those?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Horan's opening statement is a hymn of praise to himself and the service and while I have nothing against self-praise, I take a slightly different view. The National Treatment Purchase Fund was set up as a temporary measure but has become an institution and is still in place. That is not a reflection on the witnesses. It was set up by Government to reduce waiting lists. I note Galway...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Was the NTPF aware of it?