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- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Johnny Mythen: I thank the Labour Party for bringing this important motion to the floor. The statistics alone tell the true story of long-term residential care in our country. More than 80% of nursing homes are now owned by private bodies, with Emeis Ireland being by far the largest operator, owning more than 27 premises in total. When private companies are driven solely by profit, whose solidarity and...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Thomas Gould: In recent years, I have had the privilege to work with Pat Coyle and the Care Champions, a group that came into existence because of what happened to their loved ones during the Covid pandemic and how badly they were treated. Their stories are heartbreaking. I have witnessed the guilt and the hurt they feel because of the way their loved ones were treated. They feel their loved ones were...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Robert O'Donoghue: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Wall and Sherlock, for tabling this important motion. The care system is increasingly in crisis. From cradle to grave, we have seen care farmed out to private investors who think of profits and not people. The current crisis is driven by two factors in particular. These are the natural ageing of the population and the State's hands-off approach to providing...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank the Labour Party for tabling the motion. All of us here at some stage will have to think about whether our parents will be in need of nursing home care. It is a very difficult and uncomfortable conversation for any family. It is something we would all like to think our parents will not need but this simply is not how life goes. We put immense faith in these nursing home...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Alan Kelly: What was shown on the "RTÉ Investigates" programme - well done to those who made it - was disgraceful. We have many fine private nursing homes, but when we allow the development of a for-profit model for investors - there are large-scale investors in a large proportion of these nursing homes, as the Minister of State knows - that have borrowed money at low interest rates and there is no...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Ciarán Ahern: I commend my colleagues, Deputies Sherlock and Wall, for tabling the motion. All of us in the House were outraged by the "RTÉ Investigates" programme, which showed the appalling levels of abuse and malpractice in older people's care settings. These are some of the most vulnerable people in our society. They depend on the help of others to meet their basic needs, as any one of us here...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Eoghan Kenny: I second the motion. I thank my Labour Party colleagues, particularly Deputies Wall and Sherlock, for their work on it. I do not for a minute doubt the Minister of State's personal view on this issue but what we saw in the "RTÉ Investigates" programme proved there absolutely are systemic issues within HIQA. The fact HIQA took more than four months to investigate issues identified...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "recognises that: — a national policy on adult safeguarding will be introduced for the health and social care sector, as set out in the Programme for Government, and this policy will commit to the development of adult safeguarding legislation for the sector, including nursing...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Mark Wall: We need a fair deal for care. This means ending the privatisation of nursing home care and giving older people the choice to age in their own homes and communities, with a statutory right to home care. This right to home care has long been promised by successive Governments since 2017, but we have yet to see any real progress on this. Instead, the only option that older people and their...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Gerald Nash: The failures of care exposed by the media in recent weeks are not just a failure of one private nursing home operator. This is a failure by our State, a failure of public policy, a failure of regulation, and an abject failure to uphold the dignity of those who have no option but to put their care into others' hands. It would be naive of us to think that we have seen is anything other than...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
George Lawlor: As someone whose family is lucky enough to be in a position to keep their mother in her home while she requires care, with the help of some wonderful carers and my sister living with her, the spectre of what we saw on our TV screens a number of weeks ago was truly appalling. Families across the country looked on in horror as evil appeared on our screens. I do not need to rehearse all the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Paul Donnelly: The last paragraph is slightly worrying because in the presentation that was given to us on Monday evening by the principal and the patron of the school, it was stated that the SENO gave a verbal commitment to the school that the deadline of 19 February would be waived for pupils in St. Mochta’s as classes were not sanctioned on this date. The principal met with all parents on 5 March...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am glad a meeting is taking place today and, hopefully, things can be resolved. However, I would be extremely concerned if other parents were offered these places and would then have to be told they do not have alternatives. It is a real problem situation. The issue is that, according to the school, it did not have sanction for these two classes by the February deadline and, therefore,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Roderic O'Gorman: I noticed that in the Minister of State’s reply, there is a focus on the 1 February deadline. As colleagues have said, there were no plans to open an ASD class in St. Mochta’s on 1 February and the only agreement on that opening came in April. In April, when the school did agree to open these two classes, it received a verbal agreement that the deadline would be waived for the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Moynihan: There is a meeting taking place today with the school and school patrons to try to resolve the issue. Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I know the school authorities and the Department have been in contact and they will have a meeting today. Let us see what happens with that. I would be only too delighted to bring back any information to the Deputies by email or otherwise when we...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — investigative journalism by RTÉ has again exposed distressing and unacceptable practices and conditions in private Irish nursing homes, 20 years on since the Leas Cross scandal; — the failure of the State to provide sufficient public long term residential care places has led to the growing privatisation of nursing home...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Paul Donnelly: I know the Minister of State is aware of the issue in St. Mochta’s National School and the two special classes. First and foremost, we should express our concern for the parents and children involved in this situation. St. Mochta’s agreed to open up two classes after long discussions and much dialogue with the NCSE - one in temporary accommodation in the library and the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: To clarify, St. Mochta’s school in Clonsilla has 900 to 1,000 students. The management agreed to take on a huge cohort under pressure of school places in Dublin West. Six pupils enrolled in that school have approval from the NCSE for special or autism class provision, but they were not on the list that was sent to the school last Friday. We have a bizarre situation where these...