Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

HIQA recommendations are not options. Ultimately, the failure in terms of compliance is going to push everybody into a situation where powers for HIQA or some other entity will have to be realised in order to effect implementation either through oversight or using the bata mór - the big stick - in terms of these improvements, amendments and changes to any physical entity in respect of providing services. They need to be undertaken. HIQA is not doing its job lightly. It is doing a professional evaluation. That evaluation and the recommendations which follow must be respected.