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

Bernard Durkan: The purpose of today’s meeting is to consider Committee Stage of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024. The primary aim of the Bill is to provide amendments to the Health Act 2007 and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. Amendments to the Health Act 2007 will strengthen the regulatory framework for residential care centres. Amendments to the Nursing Homes...

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

Bernard Durkan: Before moving on, I want remind members of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. I also remind members that they are only allowed to participate in this meeting if they are physically located in the...

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

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Shortall has indicated that she wishes to say something.

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

Róisín Shortall: Can members make comments now, because we will probably race through the sections?

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

Bernard Durkan: Yes, that is okay. Do Deputies Shortall and Daly wish to make a comment on this?

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

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

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

Bernard Durkan: We will allow that.

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

Bernard Durkan: I want to take all the comments together first. I call Deputy Shortall.

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

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this Bill, in so far as it goes but it is very limited. The Minister of State knows very well that so much more needs to be done regarding nursing homes. I find it hard to understand why she is only dealing with this very limited number of improvements to the inspection and oversight regime. For a start, she promised that a statutory right to home care would be introduced. That...

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

Róisín Shortall: I intend to table an amendment on Report Stage. The Minister of State has opened the door on non-core aspects of this Bill given what she said earlier and I hope she might take time to consider that. She has given various promises about the Mental Health Commission taking on that responsibility. It is desperately needed, given the appalling state of children's mental health services. I...

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

Róisín Shortall: When is the other legislation on the statutory right due?

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

Bernard Durkan: We are dealing with statements only. We cannot have interruptions.

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

Róisín Shortall: Does the proposed mental health Bill provide for the Mental Health Commission to regulate CAMHS?

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

Bernard Durkan: I propose to move on now. We will take sections one by one. If members could indicate-----

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

Róisín Shortall: I want to make another comment.

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

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy may make one more comment but that will be the end of it because we have to show progress. I advise members that if there is a particular issue they want to pursue, they should indicate at this stage their intention to come back to it on Report Stage, as the Minister of State has already set out she will do.

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

Róisín Shortall: That is fine. The guideline of 85 beds is fairly reasonable.

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

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, 84 beds is fairly reasonable but there is no statutory basis to those guidelines. Therefore, they are not a requirement for multinational investment funds, which most of them are now. This is monetising care and the Minister of State and her Government have allowed that to happen over the last four and a half years. The provision of care for elderly people is now much more about...

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

Róisín Shortall: There cannot be a carrot-and-stick approach to investment funds. The Minister of State should have learned that from the disasters that have occurred in housing.

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

Róisín Shortall: Yes, a debate would be good but we need action. What is the timeline for the strategy right to home care?