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

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

David Stanton: I will probably not take all the time as Deputy O'Reilly already asked many of the questions I was going to ask. When did the Minister request the economic impact assessment?

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

David Stanton: When was that? What was the approximate date?

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

David Stanton: Can Ms Pyke give the committee an approximate date?

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

David Stanton: Six months later the Department is starting the work.

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

David Stanton: Will Ms Pyke give the committee an outline of the terms of reference of the economic impact assessment?

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

David Stanton: The Department stated that an outside agency is doing this work.

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

David Stanton: Who is it?

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

David Stanton: It has the contract.

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