Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed)

Ms Mary Dunnion:

To date, we have not gone where there has been a Covid outbreak. However, that situation is changing because we are moving now into risk-based inspections under the guidelines of the national public health guidance. As I said, we have conducted a number of inspections since March but these have been, generally speaking, in the context of either opening new centres, changing so that there can be increased capacity if that is feasible and correct in line with the regulations and around contingency planning, particularly in the nursing homes that did not have an outbreak because we identified the risks. We learned, as did everybody else. That has been a good exercise with the nursing home providers. The feedback has been very positive in the context of that. We begin risk-based inspections now.

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