Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HIQA Report 2022: Discussion
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
To the best of my knowledge, this was an announced inspection. My point is that the HIQA report did not identify any of those abuses, notwithstanding the fact that a criminal case had taken place. I will not mention the time because that might allow people to identify the home in question but the criminal case had taken place shortly before. That is my concern. We rely on HIQA to find out about these things and what happens if it does not find out about them? After a serious court case, HIQA gave the home in question a clean bill of health. Those files are, as we know, being looked at again. That raises enormous questions.
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