Professor Cillian Twomey:

The inspection process that HIQA very importantly has to undertake is serious. If a facility continuously fails to meet the standards that are set, generally speaking, it is given the opportunity to correct the areas that are deficient, and it is then revisited. If it is persistently failing on a multiple number of standards, then HIQA, under its regulation, has no option to say that it is an unsafe place for a person or people to be looked after.