Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HIQA Report 2022: Discussion
Ms Carol Grogan:
-----in absence of looking at the care needs of people who live in centres. We have run a number of webinars and intend to do a refresher in relation to that. Many of the fire issues are structural in nature and require significant investment to put right. Interestingly, we are finding those are most prominent in centres that were built around the 1990s into 2000.
Our regulations are very specific about what we look at. If we identify fire safety issues, we also make a referral to the fire authority. We have established very good working relationships with the fire authority around the country and they will always-----
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