Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

My first question relates to what has happened in the past six months in nursing homes. There are five separate inquiries ongoing in that regard and the data make for extremely grim reading. There were 971 Covid-related deaths in nursing homes and 56% of all such deaths are associated with nursing homes clusters. Of the 5,608 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in nursing homes, only 422 patients were hospitalised. As I said, it all makes for really grim reading. Will the Minister commit to a public inquiry into the catastrophe that has happened in nursing homes? Such an inquiry is owed not only to the people who died in those homes but also to their relatives.