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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Initially, I have to say I am absolutely horrified that HIQA representatives would come in here and say that RTÉ has more information than they do. You are the regulator of nursing homes. You are the people families put their trust in. That is beyond my scope of understanding, how you can say that to an Oireachtas committee. I do not accept the explanation the witnesses provided...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Of the notifications that have gone to the Garda, why did this only happen after the RTÉ documentary aired? Why did it not happen prior?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: HIQA was aware but it did not notify the Garda until after the broadcast.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: And what RTÉ is broadcasting, clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The evidence would say otherwise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: On my final question, how many HIQA staff were previously employed in nursing homes that now have referrals to the Garda?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Will HIQA submit that information to the clerk of the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: And the level those individuals are working at within HIQA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: With a view to the clock, I will keep my questions to the point. The Minister of State spoke about urgency in expediting a commitment to an adult safeguarding Bill, but he has not given any definitive timeline for it. I put it to him that in the absence of the legislation, serious safeguarding issues are being dismissed as compliance issues, which is not reflective of what is happening in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Could I make a point on that issue? HIQA has said the event is referred to An Garda Síochána but where a staff member is operating with limited supplies because of the management and the directors, it is my firmly held belief that those directors should be held responsible for not supplying an adequate level of incontinence pads or sheets for a service for which the State is paying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I am conscious of time. I have just over two and half minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Will the Minister make it an offence in legislation?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 145. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of recognised asthma centres that specialise in severe asthma that have and do not have a leading advanced nurse practitioner in post. [32917/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of ensuring an advanced nurse practitioner post at each recognised asthma centre that specialises in severe asthma. [32918/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has commissioned or plans to commission any specific studies assessing the long-term developmental, educational, and economic impacts of prolonged delays in accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. [33168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the independent evaluations or audits that have been conducted to verify that current mental health services for children comply with the State’s obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly in light of ongoing waiting list challenges. [33169/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the formal mechanisms in place to monitor the adequacy and effectiveness of alternative mental health supports and services for children and families who are unable to access CAMHS in a timely manner. [33170/25]

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: What those crowds outside the gates during the Minister of State's ten-minute speech heard was waffle and spin. They live the reality of this Government's failed housing policies. Their families, friends and co-workers live this reality. They know as well as we in opposition do that the Government at this stage might as well be a meme for fiddling while Rome burns when it comes to housing,...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The Taoiseach said earlier utilities need certainty and so do people. Residents and businesses in Ballymahon and Ardagh in Longford have had enough. Last year, Ardagh's water supply failed 13 times and there were five more failures this year, excluding storm-related outages. It is a long-standing problem and is unacceptable. It is upending the daily lives of ordinary people, families,...