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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: Who?
- 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: The head of healthcare. Does Mr. Quinn know when exactly the decision was made that capacity needed to be created in the acute hospitals?
- 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: Could Mr. Quinn provide that information to 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: Did Mr. Quinn, as the head of HIQA, a regulatory body, have a concern at the time? It is important to state that HIQA is not a representative body for 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: As a regulatory body for nursing homes, did HIQA have concerns that people were effectively being sent from the acute hospital setting into the nursing homes in order to free up capacity and that this could have repercussions in the context of infection?
- 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: At the time, were there any concerns?
- 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: Is Mr. Quinn aware of whether those concerns were raised with NPHET at the time?
- 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: Mr. Quinn said he sat on NPHET in early March, after which the head of healthcare sat on it for some time. When exactly was he a member of NPHET and when did the head of healthcare take over?
- 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: Mr. Quinn was on NPHET on 6 March.
- 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 did the head of healthcare start attending in Mr. Quinn's place?
- 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: Mr. Quinn took his place on 6 March.
- 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: To be clear, Mr. Quinn was therefore on NPHET when it was decided that the restrictions implemented by certain nursing homes and hospitals were unnecessary.
- 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 very much. He was therefore also on NPHET when the staffing crisis, about which we have heard repeatedly, was unfolding in the nursing homes. Staff were falling ill and leaving for safer or, frankly, better paid jobs in State-run nursing homes. Did he raise that concern with 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: Are those discussions reflected in the minutes of NPHET meetings?
- 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: Mr. Quinn said that he was representing nursing homes and raising issues in that regard at NPHET meetings from 6 March. Is that reflected in the minutes of NPHET meetings?
- 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: Mr. Quinn did say, however, that he was raising concerns about nursing homes and HIQA from early March.
- 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: Mr. Quinn is clear that he was not a representative of 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: I am sorry; I did not hear Mr. Quinn's reply.
- 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: Does Mr. Quinn recall any concern or opposition to the policy of freeing up capacity in acute hospitals by sending patients to nursing homes being raised at NPHET meetings?
- 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 there unanimity that it was a good policy?