Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On this issue, certain Deputies were interested in bringing in Nursing Homes Ireland generally. I had grave reservations about that because the organisation does not come under our remit. I had proposed that we invite the organisation to appear before the committee in regard to an aspect of the meeting, namely, the alleged meeting that was reported in the newspapers. As the Chairman stated Nursing Homes Ireland is not a cartel but it would appear from the article about it in the newspaper that some of its practices might come within that term, on an alleged basis. This should be the basis on which Nursing Homes Ireland is asked to attend the meeting. It was the reason we had agreed to invite it in the first instance. We appear to have lost sight of that.