Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland
Mr. Phelim Quinn:
With regard to individual cases, in parallel with the calls that we have made in recent times for changes to the regulations, we have also sought the development of adult safeguarding legislation that would enable a statutory agency to investigate individual cases of neglect and-or abuse, including institutional neglect and-or abuse. We believe that has been a deficit in the legislation for quite some time.
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