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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Special Committee on Covid-19 Response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I will not go into the rationale now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is not time to do that, as Mr. Watt well knows. This was a substantial report done by an expert group into the response to Covid. A key recommendation, recommendation 2, was to review the privatisation of care in this country. The Sage organisation, for example, is also calling for a review of care profiteering, which is going on across the board in nursing home care and home care....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Mr. Watt may not have been in the Department but I would have expected senior colleagues in the Department to be aware of this report and the recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Well, I have asked Mr. Watt. This is pertinent to the discussion we are having.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is relevant to the fact that we should learn lessons from that. In 2020, then Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said we needed to review the question of care of older people, that we needed new models of care and that Covid showed-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: -----the privatised for-profit model is not the optimum one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chair. I am sorry but I have to leave shortly. I would like some further detail on the figures. Let us separate the two issues of nursing home charges and disability facilities. The Department said that with nursing homes, there are circa100 cases that are active and not at discovery yet. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: "That are out there".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, so circa100 cases are out there at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but Mr. Watt is saying circa100.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, but Mr. Watt is still saying it is roughly 100.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I just want to get some handle on the quantum. Is it circa100?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is it circa200?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Just give us some rough idea; a ball-park figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Under the nursing home payments, approximately how many cases are out there at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No, in terms of nursing home charges.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I know that, I am just asking what the quantum is.