Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Reid has a fine record of transparency and accountability since taking up his post and I welcome all the work he and his organisation have been doing. However, a serious issue has arisen in my constituency as a result of a significant number of deaths in Dealgan House Nursing Home. The difference between these 23 deaths and all the other deaths in nursing homes around the country is that Dealgan House is the first nursing home which the HSE, through the RCSI hospitals group, took over. The families are extremely distressed, having lost so many of their loved ones, but they are also extremely angry that they are not getting accountability from their requests to find out on what grounds the HSE intervened to take over the nursing home. They will not have closure until they have all the facts. They have spent hundreds of euro on freedom of information requests to the HSE, HIQA and others. Will Mr. Reid meet these families to ensure they are fully advised of the reasons the HSE went into Dealgan House Nursing Home?

The families are looking for a separate independent inquiry, but it would help greatly, given those facts which Mr. Reid's organisation has and its record in transparency, if he would meet with them.