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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: At the very beginning of your answer to Deputy Durkan, did you say there is no difference between public and private?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: In terms of preparedness, I think was Deputy Durkan's question.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I am sorry to be rushing you. I have three questions, and I would appreciate succinct answers. I am sorry for my time management failures. One of the key recommendations this committee made in its interim report was that the practice of the HSE sending people into nursing homes which have failed HIQA inspections should cease. The HSE sends them there and pays for them with taxpayers'...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I suppose the witness cannot answer on behalf of the panel when it did not make that recommendation. Is it a recommendation that the witness personally agrees with, that we have to cease sending people into nursing homes which have failed inspection? There is compliant, substantially compliant, and then fail, which is a different category to-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Does the witness agree with the HSE sending people into these facilities?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: There has but the fair deal scheme is still being used to fund people going into these facilities, as we speak. Unless the committee is going to hear something different from the HSE or that practice has very recently ceased, the fair deal scheme and the National Treatment Purchase Fund are still being used to put people into these facilities. I want to move on to my next question, and I...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank the witness. This is my last question. I am going to go back to the opening questioning of, I think Deputy Devlin, who talked about the testing of people, in February and particularly in early March, who were being discharged from acute units into nursing homes. Was there an unusual level of people discharged, at that time, from the acute units into nursing homes?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Was there a policy of discharging patients from the acute hospitals into the nursing homes?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Is Professor Twomey aware of that urgent requirement having been communicated to acute hospitals?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank the witnesses for answering my questions and those of committee members. I apologise again for the slight delay in getting started earlier.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Dr. MacLellan and Mr. Walsh were both members of NPHET. Are they still members of NPHET?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Who instructed the acute hospitals to discharge patients to create capacity for the anticipated surge?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Who gave the direction that people were not to be transferred from community hospitals and nursing homes to acute hospitals?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Will all guidance, directions and communications at that time between the Department of Health and hospitals be provided to the committee? I refer to correspondence on discharging patients, creating capacity and what was appropriate in terms of transferring patients or seeking to have them admitted to acute hospitals.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: There is nothing further to be provided other than what has already been provided.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I do not wish to overburden the witnesses. It might be helpful to ensure that nothing has fallen between the cracks. The committee published an interim report. One of the key recommendations it contained related to care facilities that repeatedly fail in the context of HIQA recommendations - as opposed to being substantially compliant with them - and the fact that the practice of the HSE...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: What about cases where it has deemed a facility to have failed an inspection and the HSE continues to send new residents to stay at that facility and pay for their care there? HIQA has not taken the step of closing them down because we know that is legally difficult and burdensome in terms of judicial reviews, etc. The HSE is sending patients into and paying for facilities which have...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: We know that. Do not tell us what we know.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I think we got the crux of it. The money follows the patient rather than the other way around. The Acting Chairman has indicated that we need to finish.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Afforestation Programme (15 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: There should be but Coillte has its own-----