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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)

Mary Butler: I do, and I will keep it short. I thank the members for attending and for their support for this Bill. This legislation, when enacted, will achieve a number of aims. Through amendments to the Health Act 2007, it will strengthen the regulatory framework for residential care services for older persons, people with disabilities and children in need of care and protection. The first amendment...

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)

Mary Butler: Two amendments on Report Stage, with the co-operation of the members.

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)

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)

Bernard Durkan: We will allow that.

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

Mary Butler: Will I respond now or should I wait until we reach section 13?

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)

Mary Butler: No, I could not.

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

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputies for their comments. I acknowledge Deputy Daly is filling in for Deputy Cullinane. The right of entry for social workers under the safeguarding policy will be legislated for. The recruitment phase is at a very advanced stage to put in place a chief social worker in respect of the safeguarding piece we are bringing forward. The Deputy also asked about a care partner...

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)

Mary Butler: That legislation is currently being worked on. We cannot have statutory home care until we have the legislative piece in place. The other issue raised was that of an amendment relating to the mental health Bill. That legislation is very close to publication. My expectation is that it will go to Cabinet on 2 July and be published that week. I want to introduce it on Second Stage in the...

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

Mary Butler: Yes.

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

Mary Butler: On the Deputy's question on a pilot scheme in Limerick operated by the Department of Justice, the Garda and the Department of Health, with mental health services leading that, the proposal was that it would be trial. It is a diversion tactic to prevent people with mental health difficulties, especially those who have committed a low-impact crime, from entering the system. Last year, there...

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

Mary Butler: We will get the Deputy a note on that. On Kerry CAMHS, I do not have the note in front of me but the families of approximately 200 of the 240 children who had harm caused to them have entered the redress scheme. They are going through the system. It is non-adversarial. I can get the Deputy a note on the exact number. He has spoken specifically to north Kerry.

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

Mary Butler: We are currently doing a full look-back in north Kerry. That was a commitment I gave in cases where any of the audits threw up a situation where red flags were raised, and they were raised in north Kerry. As the Deputy knows, Dr. Maskey was not available and was not in a position to carry out a review after doing the first one. We found it hard to get somebody to do the full look-back, but...

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

Mary Butler: My understanding is that anyone who enters the scheme in good faith and signs the terms and conditions has received €5,000 initially, and subsequently up to €15,000. There are some individual cases-----

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

Mary Butler: That is in the redress scheme. Some individual cases that have gone privately to court do not come under the terms of the redress scheme at the moment. I will respond to Deputy Shortall on the size of nursing homes and private nursing homes. This is something I was concerned about and we did a huge amount of work last year on a design guide for nursing homes, which has been circulated to...

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-----