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

Colm Burke: Remedial works, in some cases, were not taken until after people had died in the facilities. Does Mr. Walsh agree with that?

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

Colm Burke: With the ones identified as very high risk, I know that no action was taken with at least two of them, even though they would have been high risk because there were at least six patients per ward. No action was taken until it was identified that patients were positive.

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

Colm Burke: I am talking about in one case, for instance, a simple one of changing facilities for staff.

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

Colm Burke: I am aware of it.

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

Colm Burke: I understand that in more than one place, no remedial action was taken until after people were identified as positive and in some cases until after people had died in the particular facility.

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

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Walsh.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank all the witnesses for coming in and all the people working in the direct provision centres and in their administration. Ms Buckley referred to about 8,000 residents currently in direct provision. In how many cases are decisions on applications pending? Of those cases, how many judicial review procedures are in place? Can we have an idea of those figures?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: My next question is about people who have a particular medical problem such that they are required to attend hospital regularly for medical review. Is there a process in place for moving them to safer accommodation? If so, are there many people in respect of whom the Department has had to use that process in order to be sure? I raise this question because where the virus has been...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: If in a centre there are people with a particular medical condition other than coronavirus, is there a process in place for moving them into a safer location in order that they are not at risk, particularly given that they are likely to be attending hospital for medical review?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: What kind of numbers are we talking about in the case of those with particular medical conditions outside of coronavirus?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: I fully accept that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: In the case where a person is pregnant and is attending hospital clinics, what is the accommodation provision for such a person, in particular in a specific place where coronavirus has been identified?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: Ms Buckley referred to the case in Cahersiveen. My understanding is that that person was not moved, in fact, attended clinics for care and was returned to the centre.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: But she was attending a hospital from the centre.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: Looking to the future and having had to deal with that situation in Cahersiveen, does Ms Buckley think that a better plan can be put in place? On each occasion this person attended for maternity care, she went back down to the centre, and each time she went back, it was clearly identified that she was not positive. Is there a better way?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: I accept that this is a very specific kind of situation that will arise. Do we now need to look at this from a long-term point of view, so that there is a plan in place to deal with it?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: You gave your colleague an extra two and a half minutes on top of the designated five minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: I know, but your colleague was given an extra two and a half minutes. I have a final question around the number of people who are still in centres even though asylum has been granted to them. This question may have been answered already but do we have a number for those people?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Colm Burke: Are efforts being made to move them out and to provide suitable alternative accommodation?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Colm Burke: There are a number of points I wanted to raise but I will touch only on one that relates to congregated settings within the HSE. I was in contact with someone who was, in fact, affected by Covid-19 and works in a facility where a number of people died. The person highlighted the simple fact that there were no changing facilities within the facility for staff when they came into work in the...