Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority

2:00 am

Photo of James GeogheganJames Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is that not problematic? In 2019, "RTÉ Investigates" did another programme with public service value. It was another horrific programme about crèches and what was going on in a particular crèche. Within a number of months, the owner of one of those crèches had resigned. She fell on her sword. We have not seen any of that. We are left to harangue the witnesses to ensure they are inspecting nursing homes correctly when there has been no accountability for the appalling wrongdoing that took place. If those were children at a school, I wonder about the response. It frightens me that for whatever reason, we can accept that level of appalling care for elderly people in the most aged periods of their lives. Their dignity was taken from them completely. We have sort of accepted that no one is to be held to account.

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