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

Again, I am not talking about having to check the smart TV, but as that technology develops, would the expertise be available within HIQA? If that is the way we are going to develop as a society, something like that would be needed. We mentioned the fact that where someone is going into a person's home, there has to be a level of trust and so on. On the standards of care and the survey on the quality of those standards and what level they should be at, do the witnesses have any view on standards relating to the over-reliance on individuals for whom English or Irish is not their first language? If the recipient of care is deaf and uses ISL, is this one of the standards that would be put on these providers? If the individual going into a deaf person's home cannot communicate with that person, sign language would be useful here. What if the person going in had very little English or Irish, particularly in a Gaeltacht area? Are these standards that would be expected as part of this regulation?