Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know of one facility with ten people where several staff unfortunately contracted the virus and were unable to turn up to work. It was impossible to replace them. Is a mechanism now in place to deal with such a situation? If an HSE or nursing home facility runs into a major problem with staffing, is a mechanism in place to enable that challenge to be dealt with adequately? In the facility I referred to, it was necessary to transfer people and, unfortunately, four of those ten people died. It was not a HSE facility or a private nursing home, but six of the patients ended up having to be transferred to a HSE facility. If there is another major challenge with staffing, do the HSE and the Department of Health have a mechanism to address that challenge?