Mr. Phelim Quinn:

I will reply, in the first instance, to the Deputy’s question on powers. In recent years, we have sought a review of the regulations. The regulations that currently obtain were developed, in the main, in 2009 and, subsequently, in 2013 and are worthy of review to keep pace with current models of care.

Before passing over to Ms Dunnion, I must stand that, in the context of the training of staff, at the beginning of our corporate planning period last year, we changed the emphasis of some of the work we have been doing regarding standards development. We have been looking at the development of training and guideline materials to assist the implementation of standards within health and care settings. For example, we have developed a training module in regard to infection prevention and control in the community standards and we are also in the process of developing a training and guideline module for human rights-based approaches to care across the nursing home sector.