Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion

Photo of Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Of all the inspections by HIQA nationally of nursing homes, disability centres and other institutions, the worst one in Ireland - the one with a red flag on it - is a disability centre in Dundalk. I think that is an example of privatisation gone wrong.

If these have been answered earlier, I apologise. I had other meetings to go to. In December 2021, Mr. Reid stated that the HSE did not want to publish the Brandon report in full because it did not want to "compromise" the scoping review into whether disciplinary action was required. It is now June 2022. What is the outcome of that scoping review? Is it still ongoing? If it is, that creates a huge problem for staff and the people who have disabilities in that centre.

My second question is related. In 2014 RTÉ broadcast the programme on Áras Attracta. That is a long time ago. In 2020, RTÉ reported that the HSE's internal disciplinary process into what went on in Áras Attracta had not yet formally concluded. Has it concluded now? If so, what is the outcome? What was the cost?

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