Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 January 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group
Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Exactly. That is why I said it. To correct the record, I meant to refer to HIQA rather than Tusla earlier in the meeting. I reiterate that representatives of the HSE and HIQA should come before the committee and be accountable. It is always down to no accountability, no responsibility and passing the buck. As our guests noted, HIQA never mentioned those recommendations; it was the HSE. I am going back on older records of other cases. This is why I asked whether there had been any consultation with the families of residents of the centre. It has not done that, so it has not followed the procedure. It has not given any proper rationale for why the centre was being closed, so it has not followed procedure in that regard.
In the information our guests received from the HSE or HIQA, was there a signature? Was anybody's name written on the bottom of the letters?
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