Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes
Mr. Tadhg Daly:
From a nursing home point of view, it is important to state that the nursing home sector is a part of a well-functioning health service. In peacetime - in normal times, as it were - there would be regular transfers of people from acute hospitals. Our concern was that there was no plan. In fact, the issue of testing was critical in hindsight. The fact that residents who had come from acute hospitals were not tested prior to admission to the nursing home was-----
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