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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: 224. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27729/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting hip replacement surgery at University Hospital Galway; the length of time that they have been waiting; the average waiting time for such surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27730/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: 229. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; if they have been deemed as urgent; the waiting time for this surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27744/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: 245. To ask the Minister for Health if behavioural optometry assessments are available publicly for children with special educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27776/21]

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “4.The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 14A (inserted by section 3): “14B.Where an interview is held under this Act with the Executive the interviewee shall have the right to have another person present to support them and/or to advocate on...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State for her comments and am willing to accept whatever wording she will bring forward. I accept that I am not a parliamentary draftsman by any manner of means. Once the thrust of the amendment is accepted, I am willing to discuss the matter with the Minister of State. I accept there is no impediment. There will not be an issue in 99.9% of cases but all one needs...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: I want to speak to the section. My amendment has been ruled out of order because there is potential charge on the State. I listened quite intently to what the Minister of State said on Second Stage. She said she did not want to backdate it because it would create a precedent, but it would not. We have had numerous precedents, particularly relating to issues of compensation where payments...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: We will disagree on this and I will not dwell on it. I believe it is unfair. The Minister of State has given an example of someone who is two years in a nursing home. I am talking about people who are four or five years in a nursing home and have built up substantial arrears. While those people will not have to pay for the cost of the family farm or business going forward, where they have...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: I will put a scenario to the Minister of State. She may not be able to respond now but I would appreciate if she could come back to me before Report Stage. Let us take the example of John, a farmer who has been diagnosed with farmer's lung. Due to very poor health, in February 2010 he signed the farm in its totality - farm entitlements, the land, the whole lot - over to his son, Michael,...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 5: In page 34, line 26, to delete “10 working days” and substitute “30 working days”. This is a technical amendment. Under the legislation as it stands, the person or person's care representative who is subject to the fair deal application support scheme or is being provided with financial assistance shall give notice in writing to the...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: I am quite happy to accept the Minister of State's suggestion and will withdraw the amendment on that basis. However, can the Minister of State look at a saver provision in the case of very unusual circumstances? There is provision for that in social welfare law. Can the Minister of State give it consideration between now and Report Stage? There may be one case every five years which does...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: I accept that, but let us say there is a tragic accident with a power take-off, PTO, shaft, as a result of which someone has serious head injuries, is airlifted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and remains on life support machine for three or four weeks. We cannot expect the family, in that period of time, to be thinking about informing the HSE. I accept these circumstances will be very rare,...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: Amendment No. 6 in my name has been ruled out of order as have amendments Nos. 8 and 9. I wish to speak to the principle of the three amendments in the context of section 21 because I do not want to come back in later and delay proceedings. This is an issue about which I am very passionate. There are a substantial number of vacant properties around the country in circumstances where...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: My apologies - the Minister of State is right. The figure is not 150,000 houses. That was a slip of the tongue. It is 50,000 houses. That is based on the figures provided to me by the HSE. There are approximately 14,000 people in long-term nursing home care at any time who have an asset, of whom 4,000 have a spouse who would normally be resident in the home. Some of those spouses may in...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: In many cases, they have already legally appointed a successor. In many cases, that successor is operating the family farm or business and has a substantial debt hanging over him or her that is attached to this. While that may not under the terms of this legislation meet the technical appointment of successor, the people in question have in reality and, in many cases, in legal terms already...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: Will the Minister of State come back on one final point? If someone is in a nursing home now but has not applied for the fair deal, pending the passage and enactment of this legislation, presumably the three-year cap will apply from when that person applies for the fair deal after the enactment of this legislation. Would that be the case? In other words, let us say that someone is in a...

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Denis Naughten: The time already spent will count.