Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The other issue that came up during the debate, which may be impacted by the legislation, is the transfer of elderly patients without proper testing. This was another serious problem. In some cases, they were taken out of nursing home or, vice versa, they were transferred from hospital back to nursing home without proper testing. Many of them were infected. Is that covered under the legislation? Again, it was one of the big issues that was signalled during the pandemic as a weakness within the system.