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Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I wish to ask Mr. Daly about the agricultural sector, which is my background. Last year, we raised with the Irish Farmers Association, IFA, and other farmer representative bodies the issue of discrepancies which mitigate against agriculture and probably private business as well. I refer to the cap of three years or 7.5% on individuals which does not apply to members of the farming...

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I wanted to get Mr. Daly's view on the issue before that stage is reached. He mentioned medical cards. Is he of the view that people lose their medical cards when they go into private nursing homes? I did not understand the point he made in his statement in that regard. If a person is entitled to a medical card and goes into a private nursing home, he or she does not lose the entitlement...

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: People do not lose the service because they are in a private nursing home.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Why is that? If a person is entitled to a service while living at home and then goes into a nursing home, he or she is not longer entitled to the service. I did not know that. It is news to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Who decides that?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: A person in a nursing home deserves the same treatment as he or she would receive at home. Is Mr. Daly saying that because a person has enough money to pay to go into a private nursing home, he or she will lose those services?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Mr. Daly used the word "discrimination". It is discrimination.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: What excuse does the HSE give if a patient looks for a service of which he or she availed while living at home? Is the reason given that the service cannot be provided because the person is resident in a nursing home?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Residents must have access to GP services. Just because they go into a nursing home does not mean that they do not have access to GP services.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: If a resident becomes ill in a nursing home, what GP attends them?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Contracts for care were mentioned by Mr. Daly. Old-age pensioners pay approximately 80% of their pension towards contracts for care. One may read in newspapers of issues regarding the 20% remaining being taken for extra services such as hairdressing. I am not making any accusations but there are question marks in regard to how that money is being used. The patients are old and some are...

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: It is up to each private nursing home to provide those services.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Who oversees that to ensure there is no wrongdoing in that regard? If there are moneys left over for savings, such as in the case of a person who wishes to save €20 per week, possibly towards burial costs, who oversees that and ensures it is being done and carried out properly and in accordance with the wishes of the patient, in particular those who do not have family members? If a...

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Has Mr. Daly encountered any wrongdoing in that regard? Does that happen?

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: There is a complaints procedure.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: We have kept the good wine till last.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. Mr. Horan is next.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: We appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I thank Mr. Horan. We are leading off with Deputy Connolly followed by Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)

Bobby Aylward: You have 20 minutes in total.