Results 1,301-1,320 of 1,546 for speaker:Áine Brady
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: I move amendment No. 30: In page 16, line 29, to delete "28 days" and substitute "40 working days".
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: I move amendment No. 32: In page 16, lines 34 and 35, to delete "15 working days" and substitute "10 working days".
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: I move amendment No. 34: In page 17, line 2, to delete "15 working days" and substitute "10 working days".
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: I move amendment No. 35: In page 17, to delete lines 32 to 37. Amendments Nos. 35 and 48, which reflect commitments made to Deputy Reilly on Committee Stage, will remove the right of the HSE to cease paying financial support when a person fails to pay his or her contribution. This is appropriate, given that the payment of the contribution is a private matter between the individual and the...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: I move amendment No. 37: In page 19, lines 28 to 30, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 28 down to and including "relates," in line 30. The purpose of amendment No. 37 is to ensure that, in the case of couples, both members of the couple apply for ancillary State support. At present, both members of the couple must request the payment of ancillary State support only where...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: If the regulations do not deal with that, such a couple will not be able to make an application.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: I am informed that the regulations will deal with that.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: The requirement to interpret what constitutes an interest in an asset could also render the scheme vulnerable for the following reason: if the HSE interprets an interest to refer only to a beneficial interest then, notwithstanding other legislative provisions, this could leave it open to challenge when the time comes to collect the repayable amount, for example, a married person could claim...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: In response to Deputy Connaughton, if the couple are not legal owners of the asset it is not taken into account in financial assessment.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: The spouse who is not formally requesting the support because he or she does not have a legal interest does not have to pay and the State picks up the cost.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: If they are a couple both members must apply even if only one is the legal owner of the asset.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: If neither is?
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: Then there is nothing to take into account.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: If they do not own the house and have no asset.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: The definition of a couple is that they must live together.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: The definition of "couple" is set out in section 4. Section 4(1) states: In this Act, "couple" means- (a) two persons married to each other, (b) a man and woman who are not married to each other but are cohabiting as husband and wife, or (c) two persons of the same sex who are cohabiting in domestic circumstances comparable to that of a man and woman who are not married to each other but are...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: Amendment No. 9 proposes that care needs assessments should be undertaken by HIQA. The function of HIQA will be to register and inspect all designated centres, including public, private and voluntary nursing homes. The undertaking of care needs assessments would be outside HIQA's role and distract from its critical function as a national regulatory authority. It would also represent an...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: A person can request a review, but it must be considered afresh the second time. In other words, they do not look at the first application. Of course, an appeals panel will be appointed by the Minister and if that fails applicants always have recourse to the Ombudsman.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: The existing officers who are administering the subvention scheme, the public long-stay charges, etc., would have to be redeployed. These people have had some initial training and the Deputy is also seeking another lair of bureaucracy.
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)
Áine Brady: Amendments Nos. 10 and 11, which relate to determinations on care needs assessments, are already addressed in the legislation. Amendment No. 10 seeks to provide that the HSE shall take into account whether a person is capable of caring for himself or herself or of having care services provided. However, section 7(6) already provides that the care needs assessment must take account of the...