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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: I have a comment on section 13. I can speak about it when we get to it. As the Minister of State can see, I am substituting for Deputy Cullinane. It gives the right of entry to the unregistered centres and it empowers a chief inspector with a right of entry for registered centres. I have a query for the Minister of State. Has she considered expanding the legal right of entry to social...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: I will respond to what the Minister of State said. There was a proposal for a pilot scheme on mental health in Limerick, where a mental health nurse would be in an ambulance going to people who had mental health episodes, due to the thousands of call-outs gardaí have to make every year. Twelve months on from when the pilot scheme was supposed to have been introduced, there is still no...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: Does the Minister of State have any idea when the pilot is likely to start?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: North Kerry, or south Kerry where the treatments commenced before 2016. It is quite limited.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: If there has been an admission of liability, can the families not be given the money to help them progress their case?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: That is if they are in the redress scheme.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: I wish to advise that we may table amendments on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: There has been a previous concern. I noticed that in County Kerry that the Cois na Féile service has been closed down, which is a big disappointment for the families who used the facility. A concern had been flagged by HIQA that its enforcement powers were too blunt, that the introduction of compliance notices would be a welcome step so that the nuclear option of closure would not have...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: That is noted.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I apologise. I am running between committees and the House.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I want to ask one question about the definition of "relation". As the Minister of State will know, we have been dealing with a number of cases regarding the nearest living next of kin who are beyond first cousins. The legislation, as currently drafted and presented on Second Stage, only facilitates accommodating the transfer of land to first cousins. That provision is insufficient to deal...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: To clarify, the tax code does not change in relation to this matter. People will still be treated as non-relatives under the tax code.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: Whether you are urban or rural, you would be treated the same. The difficulty is that we have people who cannot go into nursing homes, or people who are in nursing homes and their successors are farming the land and paying out from the income from the land in order to keep them in nursing homes, which was never the intention of this legislation. It is a small cohort of people but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Single Means Test and Experience of Universal Credit System in the United Kingdom: Discussion (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: Members who participate in the meeting remotely are required to do so from within the Leinster House precincts only. I welcome the witnesses. Before I start I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards references they may make to another person in their evidence. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who give evidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Single Means Test and Experience of Universal Credit System in the United Kingdom: Discussion (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank Professor Millar. I now invite Ms Bennett to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Single Means Test and Experience of Universal Credit System in the United Kingdom: Discussion (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: Does Deputy Ó Cuív wish to contribute again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Single Means Test and Experience of Universal Credit System in the United Kingdom: Discussion (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank Deputy Ó Cuiv. If someone wants to come in please use the raised hand icon. Ms Bennett raised her hand so I will let her in first, and then Professor Millar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Single Means Test and Experience of Universal Credit System in the United Kingdom: Discussion (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: One final question from Deputy Ó Cuiv.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Single Means Test and Experience of Universal Credit System in the United Kingdom: Discussion (12 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: While the witnesses are thinking about that point, I will ask a question. They have experience of looking at the evidence and models in different countries. There are two things that the committee is anxious to try to do, either through this mechanism or other mechanisms. One is to try to maximise the uptake rates for those people who are eligible. Are there any good tools that the...