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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: Has anything been put in place to mitigate against that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: In Mr. Gloster's view, how is that progress?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: What does that mean in practical terms for somebody who wants to access a service if they are working on a Saturday?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: That will have an effect on people accessing public healthcare and so on. I have another question that I will direct to Mr. Gloster. It relates to private nursing homes essentially going to the wall. There have been a number of cases this year, including Lucan Lodge and a nursing home in Kerry, I believe. They are care providers that have been there for a period and that lost their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I can imagine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: At a huge cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: At an enormous cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I acknowledge the human damage this does. You could not put a price on it. Is there a growing trend of care providers leaving the mess to the HSE, at enormous cost, when private care provision is not profitable enough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: In how many instances in, say, the past two years has the HSE had to intervene directly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: Ultimately, the HSE has to intervene. We are not arguing against that but it comes at a huge cost, with damage done to the residents. What does the HSE ultimately do? Does the nursing home close down? Can the HSE intervene directly and take over a facility completely, as with Lucan Lodge? Lucan Lodge is a great facility-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for the quite upbeat assessments. I will ask Mr. Watt and Mr. Gloster two general questions. Do they envisage any kind of headwinds blowing things off course over the next six months in the context of this assessment? Do they see anything over the next period where things could fluctuate or go off course? It is a general question but I want to get to specifics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: Mr. Gloster is happy that is progressing, largely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the statements and the discussion so far. I want to go back over the timeline of the Bill. It was introduced in 2022 and was debated on Second Stage in June 2023. At that stage, the Government moved a timed amendment to, in effect, kick the can down the road for a year. The argument for that was, and I quote the Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond: To cut...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Smyth. I am not blaming him personally. In terms of his Department, it is a decision for the Minister. There is a Bill before this committee which has passed Second Stage in the Dáil. It is a matter for the Dáil in terms of this Bill. The Government could get rid of the sub-minimum wage rates tomorrow. It should do that in the budget, but we can proceed with this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Ms Pyke will accept that the Low Pay Commission looked at previous evidence of early school leaving, hours and all the things she is saying. The Low Pay Commission looked at those things and considered them. She can respond to that. The second question is whether this economic impact assessment will look at the impact of sub-minimum wage rates in exerting downward pressure on the wages of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Will it look at wage rates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will say again, and this is not a personal criticism, that I find that the main thing the witnesses are telling us today is to hold off on this because an economic impact assessment is coming. However, they did not bring the terms of reference with them. They are not able to detail them. That is not all that satisfactory for us because they are asking us to hold off on proceeding with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the Low Pay Commission call for a further economic impact assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will ask the question again. Did the Low Pay Commission call for an economic impact assessment?