David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One of the things we have learned, from the expert panel report and the Covid committee when it was in place, is that the clinical governance arrangements between private nursing homes and the HSE need to be improved. We need consider that relationship very carefully.

On outbreak management and crisis management, I have been contacted by staff in many nursing homes who have expressed alarm over staffing levels in some of the homes. On the outbreak management and crisis management plan, what is the threshold or staff–resident ratio that would have to exist for circumstances to be considered to be at crisis point?