Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would also like to express my sympathies to the families who have lost loved ones, particularly in nursing homes, and to the staff who cared for them. It is incredibly distressing.

I would like to continue the questioning in regard to Dealgan House Nursing Home. It would be fair to say that Mr. Tadhg Daly of Nursing Homes Ireland spoke about what he saw as a major failing in regard to the testing of residents, the shortfall of PPE and the aggressive recruitment of nursing staff. I would also say that maybe plans were not in place for a situation such as an outbreak of Covid-19 in Dealgan House-----