David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is very important information for us. However, I always get nervous when we have something as fundamentally important as this coming in to a Bill through an amendment at a late stage. We have done pre-legislative scrutiny on the patient safety Bill and that may well be what we want but the committee needs to look at this. It is happening quite often that we have sections of Bills coming into existing Bills. We will do that with a couple of other Bills as well. We need to make sure we get these things right. That is very important.

I know from speaking to many families of people in nursing homes that there have been horrendous issues of abuse, although it is a tiny number. Overall, people in nursing homes get great care. However, when there cannot be power of initiation, that is a problem. It needs more fundamental thought, as opposed to just saying we will try to make an amendment through a different Bill and we might be able to provide more powers. That is a separate point. I think Ms Larthwell was going to come in.