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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: It will be for this committee to determine.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate the gravity of the points Deputy Brady has raised but it is for this committee to determine whether or not to recommend an inquiry.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Sinn Féin has four representatives on that committee.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Okay, but this is the last question I will allow. If they wish to answer that question, they can. It is up to the HIQA representatives. It is not for HIQA to recommend a public inquiry but if they agree-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Deputy Brady is entitled to speak for five minutes and he has been speaking for 13. I have been more than fair with the Deputy.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I started interrupting Deputy Brady after ten minutes. That is not a fair charge. Does HIQA wish to respond to that question or not?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Quinn and Deputy Brady. I ask Deputy Ó Murchú to be brief because of the amount of time that has been lost.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: As I told Deputy O'Dowd earlier, there is a particular nursing home in that constituency which is the subject of legal proceedings and I will not have it discussed this morning because of those proceedings.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Can I make one point? As somebody who lost a very close relative in a nursing home, thankfully, before Covid was on the scene, I can only appreciate the enormity of their grief. It must be particularly heartbreaking for those families to lose them in the circumstances of Covid and to not be able to be there.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate what it must be like and what they are going through. I also have to say that this is not the forum that can give them the justice they are seeking. There are court cases ongoing. I cannot allow this forum to interfere with those court cases but, of course, I sympathise with the cases that Deputy Ó Murchú has raised, as has Deputy O'Dowd. The enormity of their...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: In fairness, Deputy Bríd Smith has made that point, as have other members of the committee.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Will the Chief Whip allow the Deputy to consider a pair because I have a couple of questions to ask. I am presuming that the Deputy is going to vote with the Government.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I refer Mr. Quinn to his statement that he was on NPHET from early March arguing the case for nursing homes. Was that a difficult place to be or difficult experience given the overwhelming concentration of NPHET at the time on acute hospital facilities?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: When would Mr. Quinn say NPHET became aware that there were issues arising from the care home setting?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Yet, on 10 March, NPHET agreed that unilateral or widespread restrictions on visiting, which the nursing homes and some hospitals were implementing themselves, were not required at that time. That seems to contradict what Mr. Quinn just said.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate that one does not make decisions with the benefit of hindsight but, with that benefit, does Mr. Quinn believe it was the right decision?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Those restrictions were being put in place by nursing homes in response to footage and information that was emerging, particularly from Italy and Spain, in respect of large numbers of deaths in nursing homes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Was Mr. Quinn on NPHET when the decisions were being made to free up capacity in the acute hospitals by sending people to nursing homes?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Were those decisions discussed by NPHET?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Who was on NPHET at the time on behalf of HIQA?