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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Where does this section sit in the context of directions? From whom will the directions come? Will they comes from the Minister in the context of the operation of the Bill, as amended?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, that is the question.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: That is the question I was going to put.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I wished to ask the same question Deputy Burke raised. In the event of there being a division of responsibility and viewpoint, who concedes and who is the arbiter?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: There is a situation at the moment and I just want to ask a question about whether it will it be addressed in the course of what we are doing. There is no maternity leave cover for speech and language therapists at present. Who decides whether that will be funded or not? Will it be funded under the model of Sláintecare or will it be funded under a multiplicity of models? In other...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I do not mind.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It is an important issue and I am glad to hear it is being resolved.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I have a question relating to a sectoral plan outlining the programme of measures proposed for the provision of services to persons with specified disabilities. Will that tie in seamlessly with the Sláintecare plan?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: May I come in on that point?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We have touched on the most important part of the proposed legislation, which is consultation about the immediate needs of the people we are trying to help. Has anybody looked at, for example, the duplex housing system recently and how many people are in such accommodation and must access their homes via an outside stairs with only one handrail? There have been numerous cases of people...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We are at a very important juncture with this section and the ability of HIQA or any responsible body to be able to react to a case, whether it is residential, home care or whatever. It can be from Kerry to Donegal to the community healthcare organisations in my constituency in the greater Dublin area and Kildare. There are cases that should not happen in those areas. Situations continue to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I agree, and I thank the Minister of State for her response. It is serious, which is why I raised it. It is getting more serious as time passes. There is an onus on the providers of the service, wherever the service may be and whether it be the public health service, a private institution or institutions or a multiplicity of either or both, to be able to take responsibility for something...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We should not leave the matter uninvestigated or unchallenged.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: That is the important part.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I have similar concerns as Deputy Shortall. There are countless situations where there will be attempts to complain that we are dealing with a different situation now than previously, that there are different responsibilities and that different people are responsible for what happened in the beginning. There is no excuse at all. I do not cast blame on the Minister of State and I believe...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I agree.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: If I may qualify further, I agree with Deputy Shortall and believe there is a danger in this regard. There have been too many incidents and situations in the past about which we can apparently do nothing because we were told there was a legal issue and that nothing can happen. As long as nothing can happen, nothing will happen. We have a serious responsibility to address issues that are...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I am still not getting the answers I was hoping for. I have to leave the meeting because there is something else coming up. I am still not getting the answers I wanted. I do not know about Deputy Shortall but I am sure she will speak for herself in this regard. I have to say that I am worried the current unacceptable situation may continue in the future or may not be addressed as a result...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We understand our concerns are being investigated on that basis.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: With whom can the purveyor of the information, or those who seek the PPS number, share the information? Is there anyone else they can share it with? If a person is seeking a loan, perfectly legitimately, it may be that the information is already, in effect, in the ether.