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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Whatever correspondence Nursing Homes Ireland has. I do not wish to overburden it because I appreciate-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I understand.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am sure that there are good reasons for the heavy redaction by the Department of Health and that it will provide them. We will ask for those reasons. The Care Quality Commission is the United Kingdom's equivalent of HIQA. It required that every care facility identify a clinical lead by 15 May. In Ireland, some HSE facilities have a medical officer who is responsible for the care of...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: In addition, perhaps.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Or is that instead of?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Was there something that Mr. Taylor specifically wanted to come in on?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Daly had an introductory meeting with Mr. Paul Reid, the CEO of the HSE, on 19 February. Was Covid-19 a concern at that time or did it emerge later?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Thank you very much for your help and for answering my questions as well as those of the committee. We look forward to receiving the documentation. I am sorry it is probably extensive but we will accept as much as Nursing Homes Ireland can provide.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I welcome Mr. Phelim Quinn, CEO of HIQA and Ms Mary Dunnion, chief inspector of social services and director of regulation at HIQA. I thank them for joining us in the Dáil Chamber. We are joined from committee room 1 by three representatives from the HSE: Mr. David Walsh, national director of community operations; Ms Sandra Tuohy, assistant national director of older persons services...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Quinn for limiting his opening statement to five minutes. I call Deputy O'Dowd.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask our guests to be brief because we are over time.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Were those judicial reviews successful or unsuccessful?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am not sure it is appropriate to refer to a particular nursing home.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: In fairness to Deputy McGuinness, he had a question which Dr. Kennelly did not hear because there are sound problems. Could the Deputy repeat it?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask Dr. Kennelly to send that guidance to the committee.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: It might cause a public health risk if we were all to crowd into a committee room. We are limited in terms of what we can do and how we do it. Deputy McGuinness queried the appropriateness of inspectors being allocated to certain care institutions and asked whether it should be done on a random basis. What is Ms Dunnion's view in that regard?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I call Deputy Duncan Smith of the Labour Party.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask that particular institutions not be named, if possible.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I understand Ms Sandra Tuohy, assistant national director for older persons services, wants to answer Deputy Smith's question. Is that correct? I was told by the secretariat that Ms Tuohy wished to speak. If I am incorrect in that, we can move on.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: You are out of time.