Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed)

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask about the HSE and congregated settings. We had a number of incidents and deaths in a number of facilities like Portlaoise, Phoenix Park and the community hospital in west Cork. I have spoken to people who worked in those facilities. For instance, I know that there were no changing facilities for staff in some of those facilities and there were six patients per ward. Surely these facilities were identified as high risk at a very early stage. What action was taken to deal with the situation when they were identified as high risk?

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