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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)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

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)

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)

Róisín Shortall: I want to make another comment.

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?

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

Róisín Shortall: That is fine.

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

Róisín Shortall: No, the statutory right to home care.

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

Róisín Shortall: What does it mean that the work is ongoing? We have been waiting since 2018 for a statutory right to home care.

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

Róisín Shortall: With due respect, it has been six years and that nut has not been cracked.

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

Róisín Shortall: It sounds like we are not anywhere near to having the legislation.

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

Róisín Shortall: I may do so as well. It depends.

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)

Róisín Shortall: That covers half the country.