Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HIQA Report 2022: Discussion

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With regard to public nursing homes, for instance, I was speaking in County Kilkenny recently and one of the ratios I saw was that a public nursing home bed costs approximately €2,000 per week. A private nursing home was getting slightly over €1,000. There is a 98.5% differential. Because public nursing homes are getting, obviously, nearly double the money, is HIQA then still finding some challenges in public nursing homes in doing inspections? A lot of work had to be done as a result of Covid-19 when the number of beds per room had to be reduced in some cases. Is that still a challenge HIQA is finding in public nursing homes?

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