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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I thank Mr. Daly and Mr. Taylor for coming in. I want to ask Mr. Daly about the distribution of PPE. I understand it was chaotic for a while and nobody was getting anything. Now I believe we are at a stage where some people are over-supplied and some are under-supplied. That is the experience of my colleague, Councillor Róisín Garvey in Clare, who tells me she went around with a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: Have the infection control rules that are apparently needed affected the operation of the nursing homes at the moment? We talk about congregated settings. Typically, people are sitting in sitting rooms, watching TV, sharing rooms on occasion or whatever. Nursing Homes Ireland has received guidance from the Department of Health on how they should operate from the infection control point of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: Are there very few new entrants to the nursing homes? Is it the case that people are not being admitted any more?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I think it is fair to say that many people, even before the pandemic, would have preferred to stay in their home than go to a nursing home. They might have had a fear but now that fear is much greater and it is among families as well. Government policy is to move more towards home care and having a statutory home care package and away from relying on the fair deal scheme alone. This...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: Mr. Taylor mentioned that the average length of stay in a nursing home is two years. I am sorry to ask this but does this equate to life expectancy?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: If fewer people go to nursing homes and more home care is taking place, does Mr. Taylor expect that future nursing home stays will be shorter? Hospices have the shortest expected length of stay. Will future nursing home stays be shorter, for example, for one year? Will Mr. Taylor describe what fits into the gap between home care and nursing homes?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I suppose I can ask about it at a meeting of the Covid-19 committee. I want to speak to international travel within Europe. Every country has its own road map and part of that is reopening international travel, and every country is coming up with different rules. There is a lack of symmetry or reciprocity in this. A person may be quarantined on arriving in a country but would not be...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I thank the Minister.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I thank the Minister for that answer. It will be within two weeks. We are all aware that there are profound implications for mental health from the pandemic. Yet, as far as I know, A Vision for Change is 14 years old and requires to be updated. I know there have been reports from people like Catherine Day on trying to improve mental health strategy. Can the Minister outline to the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: Is the Minister saying it will be in the next few weeks?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I want to move on to scenario planning. In general, the simple way of planning for things is that we look at what is likely to happen based on what has happened in the past. Things continue on and they go along a line. However, because this is a novel coronavirus and we do not know exactly what path the disease will take, there are several different possibilities that have profound...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: When will we have our detailed road map for the reopening of medical services? We have a road map that specifies when social services and businesses will reopen. For example, we know that on 20 July people can go to the hairdresser's but we do not know when they can, for example, get a cervical check or breast check. The HSE website simply states: Breast screening is paused until...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (20 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: 690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding consumable supplies (details supplied). [5806/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I will start with Mr. Breslin. I want to ask about people who have cancer, people with chronic illnesses and people in pain who up to now have been attending private hospitals for non-elective and very necessary procedures. Their procedures were simply eliminated, or their appointments disappeared. Understandably, we needed, or thought we needed, the hospitals for the surge. What is...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: What period do these deparmental figures refer to?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: How many consultants have signed up to this deal at this stage?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: If 280 consultants have signed up, how many consultants have not?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: I thank Mr. Breslin.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: Many people have been avoiding attending hospital. There are also people whose appointments have been cancelled and medical staff who are unavailable to work, especially in the private hospital system. People attend the private hospital system for necessary procedures which are important to their future health. To what extent are people who wish to attend and are willing to go to hospital,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Ossian Smyth: Is Mr. Reid saying that there are options for all patients in that situation? In other words, if one's hospital is closed and one's doctor is not signed up, is it the case then that everybody has some option as an alternative?