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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: This is very informative and the work HIQA does on oversight and regulation is important. My first question is a very practical one. How many staff are in HIQA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: When was HIQA established?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: In 2007. Regarding inspections, I will randomly select an emergency department, ED, when HIQA inspects does it come unannounced or announced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: They are unannounced, so HIQA basically arrives on the day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: If HIQA comes unannounced to an ED at, say, 10 o'clock in the morning, how many staff would HIQA have on its complement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: What happens? Obviously Mr. Egan introduces himself and says the team are here to inspect. Does the team interview some of the staff, or even some of the people who are waiting in the ED?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Has Mr. Egan ever experienced resistance from, for instance, senior management regarding an announced, or unannounced inspection?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: When would the feedback as regards the medical setting be given back to management?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: The remit of HIQA is broad. It covers staff shortages and anything it observes on the day. I presume some inspections last more than a day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: The Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act is a huge piece of work and other legislation will be coming through the Parliament in the coming months. How does HIQA envisage its capacity around the Act?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: What powers will that give HIQA that it does not have already? The new legislation gives HIQA and the State more powers in relation to disclosure, but what does it give HIQA and where does its remit approach private hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: My final question relates to the nursing home expert panel report. There was a significant number of recommendations about nursing home settings after the Covid-19 pandemic. Huge lessons were learned. Huge mistakes were made by the private and public sector in that environmental setting. What role and remit does HIQA have jurisdiction of as regards the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: That means to close it down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: That closes the place down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I presume it would be rare that HIQA has to go to court.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: 76. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the detail of the Defence Forces' vision statement, mentioned in the Strategic Framework: Transformation of the Defence Forces document; if it would have any impact on Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42519/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I thank all our witnesses. I will begin by saying that some of the language used here in the theses by Dr. Finegan and Dr. Yuill is deeply distasteful and very selective, to say the least. People should reflect on the language they are using in some of the critiques - I am thinking in particular of Dr. Yuill - because it does not stand up. If he is saying that in Canada somebody may avail...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Dr. Yuill said somebody availed of assisted dying because they were homeless. Can he give evidence of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Will he tell us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Come on. Dr. Yuill put in his statement that somebody in Canada availed of assisted dying because they were homeless. Will he give evidence of that?