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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: Yesterday's announcement laid out a wide remit for the commission. My question relates to the urgent matter of the licence fee. The wide remit of the commission is welcome and we need to examine all aspects of the media. I also hope to see print journalists appointed to the commission; they have been omitted so far. The real issue concerning all the areas that have been flagged is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: As the Minister says, she is acutely aware that the tourism and hospitality sectors are among the hardest hit sectors. They are on their knees and they face into a long winter. The Irish Hotels Federation, IHF, has said that the weekly rate of new bookings has plummeted by 67% and it is looking at occupancy rates of 23% for October. It also estimates 100,000 jobs have been lost and a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: Can the Minister honestly say the stay and spend initiative is sufficient for what the sector needs? A whole section of society has been excluded from it and it is only those who can afford to go on a holiday that will benefit from it. A voucher scheme such as that proposed by my party, according to which every adult and every child in the State would have got €200, would been a real...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: 3. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to introduce a sector-specific Covid-19 plan for the coming months for the tourism and hospitality sector to provide additional support for businesses in view of the potential for further restrictions during the winter months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27684/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: Does the Minister intend to introduce a sector-specific Covid-19 plan for the coming months for the tourism and hospitality sector to provide additional support for businesses given the potential for further restrictions during the winter months? Will she make a statement on the matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: I want to touch on the scope of care that is to be provided under the scheme. The legislation states that all nursing homes participating in the scheme, whether public, private or voluntary, must provide the specified services within the contract payment amount and at no additional cost to the care recipient. The services included are outlined on page 25. One of these is nursing and...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: On the issue of incontinence wear, they appear to be breaking the law.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: If nursing homes are charging residents for the same thing twice, it is in breach of the contract of care and the provision of care and it clearly involves breaking the law.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: Am I correct in stating that the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act is law and places matters on a statutory footing?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: On the issue I have outlined, if the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act is law and places matters on a statutory footing and if a home is breaking the terms of the Act by charging a person twice for the same thing, is that not illegal?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: Would Mr. Mulvany not consider incontinence wear part of personal care? The HSE clearly does so in the public nursing homes and if it is provided free by the HSE to both private and public homes, why are private nursing homes charging additional costs? Is that not a breach of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: On page 39 of the report, there is no reference to the charge for incontinence wear only being for additional incontinence wear, where it is needed. There is a charge of €61 per box. If the incontinence wear is being supplied free of charge right across the board, then that charge is in breach of the Act. I will move on to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: Does it state that specifically in the samples of contracts that were examined? I refer to the charge of €61.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: It is €61 a box.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: I refer again to the contracts of care. The report states "Additional fees for increased dependency are therefore not allowed for Scheme-supported residents" and that "five of the six private nursing homes’ contracts of care reviewed included provisions for possible increases in charges if the resident’s level of dependency changed". Is this something that is clearly being flouted?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: The report stated that five of the six sample contracts examined included a reference to a change in fees if a resident's dependency level changes but under the actual Act, additional fees for increased dependency are not allowed for scheme-supported residents.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: That is clearly flouting the Act. I am asking about this because we are paying these private nursing homes €649 million a year and it is clear that people are being charged when they should not be. I could cite incidences of charges right across the board, from bedsore creams to prescription painkillers to wound dressing. All of these charges are being made. Where is the oversight?...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: That is fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: It is in breach of the Act if the costs are changing based on the patient's level of dependency. Whether that is the NTPF or whoever else, public moneys are being paid and the Act is not being adhered to. Are laws being broken here?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)

Imelda Munster: There is no oversight. A family may not know that they are signing a contract stating that the charges could be changed depending on the level of dependency.