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

Regarding transfers from nursing homes, there was a sad inquest in Cork recently into someone in a nursing home who had swallowed false teeth, was admitted to hospital, was there for three days and was not examined until the third or fourth day, by which point the person had developed an infection. That person was transferred back to the nursing home to die. If the person had not been transferred to hospital and a team had instead gone out to the nursing home, that person could have been saved. It is a sad example of where a transfer to a hospital did not work. If the person had been in the nursing home and a team had gone out, the team would probably have identified what the issue was.