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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 1076. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with local authority chief executives and the Minister for Health to ensure that local authorities can source, secure and supply mobile homes for self-isolation as a means of preventative health action to proactively combat Covid-19 for Travellers living in overcrowded accommodation (details supplied); and...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for being here today and offer my sympathies to the families of those who have been bereaved and those resident or working in the nursing home sector. I have some questions for Mr. Daly relating to his statement and correspondence we received today. It strikes me that the nursing home sector showed a degree of foresight and planning and tried to flag issues at a very...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: To prepare the hospital sector, large numbers of patients were discharged but they were discharged to the nursing home sector with no plan.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: At the time those responsible were preparing the acute hospitals, they were transferring large numbers of patients from those hospitals to the nursing home sector. These patients were to become residents but they were not tested. Was any protocol given to nursing homes? Were nursing homes instructed that these people had to isolate for 14 days? Did those discharging people check in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Nursing homes were not instructed to - that is my point.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at correspondence sent by Mr. Daly on 10 March. He requested that all discharges would undergo a full risk assessment, a full medical assessment and be tested for Covid-19. I have been told by the Minister for Health as well that the protocol dictates that a patient discharged must have two negative tests prior to transfer. That did not happen in March. Am I right?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: At the same time, staff were being aggressively recruited, to use the term Mr. Daly used. He called on the HSE to "desist from targeting the recruitment of staff from the private nursing home sector". These staff were being recruited by the HSE to go to the acute hospital sector at the same time as large numbers of patients were being transferred out. Is that right?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Nursing homes were losing staff at the same time as they were being asked to take on additional patients.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: None of these patients was tested. The medical assessment and risk assessment that nursing homes had looked for were not taking place in March.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at correspondence from Mr. Daly. Chairman, I want to point out again, on the record, that we received a huge volume of correspondence at 9.30 this morning. It is not helpful. It is more helpful for us in doing our work if we get it in good time. I am looking at correspondence from Mr. Daly dated 17 March sent to the Department. Mr. Daly stated: We require a commitment to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: The first meeting was at the end of March, but how many times had Mr. Daly requested that meeting? We know that Nursing Homes Ireland issued a press release on 25 March, and we know from the correspondence that Mr. Daly made a large number of requests, but that meeting did not happen until the end of March.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: That is fair enough. Regarding the number of discharges made at the very beginning, is it Mr. Daly's opinion that it is possible that in some instances the virus may have come into nursing homes via those discharges because of the lack of risk assessment, the lack of medical assessment and the failure to test prior to transfer?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am only asking for Mr. Daly's opinion.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Daly says in his submission to us: Key State organisations left the nursing home sector and its residents isolated in those early days. The dismay will live forever with us. I will come to Mr. Taylor as well on this, but could Mr. Daly briefly describe the impact of having to deal in this environment not just with the deaths that happen but also with caring for those patients? I...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I like the Mother Jones quote to which Mr. Taylor referred, "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." It is very important. He described the impact on the residents and the staff and the relatives of the staff: "You have no idea how awful it is - it's horrific." As to what was happening at the time, what feedback was Sage Advocacy getting from residents and their families,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: As is their right.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: If the Minister asks nicely.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to ask the Minister about smear testing, not specifically about screening but about women who are symptomatic and who have come forward. I have been contacted by a number of them in the past week. They did as the Minister has previously advised. They were symptomatic, they were concerned and they went to their GPs. Their GPs are telling them now that the labs are not accepting the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Data (20 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 17. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the vacancies among instructors in the Defence Forces across each branch. [6377/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (20 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to open a new Irish Consulate General office in Doha, Qatar. [6379/20]