Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses. I am just restating the point that given the breadth of the process, in the meantime and in real time people are being failed by the lack of regulation. Older people are dying and have died in substantial numbers over the past year because of the lack of regulation. I am asking the commission to consider making a recommendation to the Government for health settings. It should recommend to the Government that it deal with the area as a matter of urgency and the commission can deal with wider matters at a later stage.

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