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

Again, this may be a matter for legislators. This week, Mr. Finbarr Colfer, deputy chief inspector in HIQA, said "that people with disabilities living in congregated settings are at higher risk of receiving a poorer quality support that does not uphold their rights". Is that due to the lack of monitoring inspections during Covid? We know conditions deteriorated in some centres. What lessons have been learned? That would be useful to know if we find ourselves in another pandemic or situation in the future and would ensure we have a different style of inspections. Have we learned anything from that period that we can adapt?