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

I will give an example. There is one product that does an assessment of a person and determines if they need an incontinence pad. The current regulations, as far as I am aware, are that a person must be checked on every couple of hours. This technology can pick up the scent or whatever else, so there would not be the necessity, for instance, to wake someone up in the middle of the night to see if they needed a new pad. That is groundbreaking. If this were to be introduced right across the board, who would monitor whether it was working? The last thing you would want is for someone to be lying in the pad for hours without being checked.