David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If that is the case, we need to go to the Department. We need to know if the system, whether it involves the HSE or the Department, will take the bull by the horns and deal with the issue of clinical governance once and for all. I do not have the time to go through the lengthy letter we got from HIQA that contains a long list of requests that have gone unanswered. Will the Department state whether we are going to get to a stage where we will improve clinical governance arrangements in nursing homes? Whose job will it be? Perhaps the Department will be able to answer that.