Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is the problem. The Department is putting it back on the most vulnerable. I have just said that when patients in nursing homes or family members complain, the family are told they can take their mother or father elsewhere. The assistant national director to whom I referred suggested that a clause be put in the contract. Why is there reluctance to do that? Why is there reluctance to do something concrete that would afford the most vulnerable protection?

That is my question. The witness should not say they are putting in regulations, as that puts it back on the elderly mothers or fathers in a nursing home who have been told, or even their children have been told, to take them out if they do not like it.