Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry I had to pop out but I had to speak in the Dáil for a few minutes. I read through the opening statements last night and I have a couple of questions. Moving people from congregated settings is very important work and it is obviously time to move on from congregated settings as the targets were not reached there. The witnesses talked about the staff in institutions and how being trained to look at things differently and engage with the residents has meant that they looked at their work completely differently. Would the witnesses say that initially people in congregated settings were being treated almost as patients rather than as residents and that that has changed? How much more work has to be done to move more people from congregated settings into the community?