Mary Lou McDonald
Question:953. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the details of all meetings between his Department and Nursing Homes Ireland from 2011 to date in tabular form. [13821/17]
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Since 2011 officials from the Department have met regularly with various stakeholders, including Nursing Homes Ireland, both formally and informally. During that period meetings with NHI have discussed a wide range of issues including the review of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme, funding of Long Term Care, residential care standards, recruitment and workforce planning. NHI was also represented on Working Groups chaired by the Department which considered the Care and Welfare Regulations and Towards a Restraint Free Environment in Nursing Homes. In November 2016 NHI presented to the Interdepartmental Working Group established to oversee certain recommendations contained in the Review of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme. My Department does not maintain a register of formal and informal meetings with stakeholders, such meetings are typically part of the normal course of business, across a wide variety of issues.
As Minister with responsibility for Older People, I met with representatives from NHI in July 2016. I also invited them to participate in meetings I had in September 2016 and January 2017 with older persons’ representative groups.