Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

If Mr. Walsh cannot answer my question about the change in regulations of the requirements of the professionalism of the person in charge, then who made the change and when? What Minister, what Department or who in the Department made the change?

If he cannot answer it now, will he please find out the answer and give it to me? It is referred to in the expert report on page 96, chapter 7, so I am surprised Mr. Walsh does not have the answer. It is a very clear move away from having highly qualified people in charge of nursing homes and deregulating them to an extent that I believe may show that patients, and residents as a whole, got sick and suffered because of the reduction in the level of qualifications of the persons in charge. Why was that regulation changed, by whom and when?