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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: It is 84 beds.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, 84 beds is fairly reasonable but there is no statutory basis to those guidelines. Therefore, they are not a requirement for multinational investment funds, which most of them are now. This is monetising care and the Minister of State and her Government have allowed that to happen over the last four and a half years. The provision of care for elderly people is now much more about...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: We were trying to take a carrot-and-stick approach, but the whole point is-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There cannot be a carrot-and-stick approach to investment funds. The Minister of State should have learned that from the disasters that have occurred in housing.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Some of the comments the Deputy is making are rather disingenuous. I came to this post on 1 July 2020. I am not quite four years in the job yet but that is not the point. The point is that for the first two years in government, we dealt with Covid, which was very challenging in the nursing home sector. I sat on the same committee as Deputy Shortall at that time and we have made a huge...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, a debate would be good but we need action. What is the timeline for the strategy right to home care?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I invite Ms Casey to answer that question.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: No, the statutory right to home care.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: What does it mean that the work is ongoing? We have been waiting since 2018 for a statutory right to home care.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I am concerned about this because when statutory home care was announced by the previous Government, the perception was that statutory home care would be like nursing home care in the home. That is not the way I see it because we would not have enough carers to deliver it. My budget for home care this year is €730 million. The nut has not been cracked yet as regards at what stage...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: With due respect, it has been six years and that nut has not been cracked.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It sounds like we are not anywhere near to having the legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Noted.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I may do so as well. It depends.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Noted.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I met Ms Carol Grogan, the chief officer of HIQA, recently. She is very happy with the contents of the Bill to date. She also used the same wording - that the tools were very blunt - but this will allow her to deal with more urgent cases, working alongside the providers. She also flagged that there was repeated non-compliance across some services. This legislation pertains not only to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Sections 20 to 33, inclusive, are all technical amendments to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act for more complete cross-reference. I wish to flag that section 21 is to amend or extend the family successor to include first cousins, great-nephews, great-nieces and great-grandchildren. I will introduce an amendment on Report Stage to include various levels of cousins to make sure that a...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Over the last 12 to 18 months, there has been constant interaction between Deputy Naughten and me on this issue, which is an important unintended consequence of the legislation that was moved. When the legislation was drafted it included a reference to a first cousin, great-nephews, great-nieces and great-grandchildren. I discovered very quickly that a person's first cousin could be the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That covers half the country.