Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Damien McCallion:
There are two pieces. There is the initial move, which was in response to the pandemic. Obviously, that happened at pace because of the concerns at the time with regard to multi-occupancy rooms and so on. The Deputy is raising concerns in terms of both staff and residents with regard to the current process in respect of where the centre is going. We will speak to the chief officer again on that just to confirm and make sure that all the communication happens. I have been to some of those units to visit people. As the Deputy stated, there is significant amount of dialogue between the staff and patients all the time. In many cases, one is trying not to make it a clinical environment in terms of in its entire-----
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