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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Where are these coming from?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: What was the finding? Were all these concerns upheld?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: How many of these concerns were upheld?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: There is less than a minute left but will the HSE comment on this morning's statements from witnesses?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: If I can just interrupt-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Does Dr. Kennelly broadly dispute-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Can my question be answered when we get the sound sorted?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Does Dr. Kennelly dispute the statements made by both witnesses this morning or does she accept some of the criticism and charges made in those statements?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: I think the members should move to the committee room.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: The transcript of these three sessions today should be sent to all of the negotiators and leaders of the parties forming the next Government because we have heard about the failure of public policy in so many areas today. The officials present can account within that policy but this House has failed in the care of the elderly, the respect shown to them and the care they deserve at this time...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: In the context of those who manage the centres, how many of those managers or holders of the contract got in touch with the Department or the HSE in the lead into the Covid-19 crisis to say "hang on a second, we cannot deal with this"? Did alarm bells ring for the Department? Were the centre managers central to those inquiries?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Did they?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Did the managers come to the Department with their concerns arising with what they might have had to do, in terms of planning for Covid-19, or did the Department have to pursue them? Were they proactive on behalf of their residents in the centres that they owned and managed?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: How many people did the Department move out of the centres to either isolate or because it was beyond the number that could be coped with in the context of Covid-19? How many people were moved out of the various centres and what was the extra cost involved?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Ms Buckley may have the number.
- Covid-19 (Finance): Statements (20 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Yesterday we were told that the cost of construction in the housing sector would increase by €10,000 to €15,000 per unit, that the price of an apartment might rise by €20,000, and that the general cost of public projects currently under construction could rise by 40%. There are issues regarding the Covid-19 insurance and emerging issues out of claims under that insurance...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Have the witnesses examined the role of carers in the home and how they are being supported in all of this? The section 39 organisations, which provide services for the mentally and physically challenged clients, were caught for cash and funding before this happened. Has funding been released to those organisations to ensure that they can expand the role that they have, and indeed, support...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)
John McGuinness: I am sorry to interrupt, but I am watching my time. I asked specifically about the contract, the consultants and their business plans. What is the position on that?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Can Mr. Breslin deal with the other questions I asked regarding the cancellation of private appointments and the funding for section 39 organisations?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)
John McGuinness: Could I ask that some of the questions that were not answered, which are particularly relevant to consultants and the operation of their business, be answered in writing?