Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Susan Cliffe:

Non-compliance with fire standards in Beneavin Manor is largely restricted to the systems it has in place to recognise and respond. They are not structural issues. Where there are structural or building issues that inform fire safety, we refer them to the fire authority or require a registered provider to give us a plan for how it will address those issues. Non-compliance with fire standards that can be addressed through evacuation processes, aids and the number of dependent residents in compartments can be dealt with quickly by a registered provider. It is our expectation it will do that.

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