Ciara Conway (Waterford, Labour)
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I will return to some of the questions the Chairman asked about how unsolicited information is managed. Mr. Quinn said the unsolicited information HIQA received related to the quality and safety of care. If an old person is at physical risk, what does HIQA do? Does it remove the person from the centre to a place of safety? How is it managed, given what happened in an equivalent service where other vulnerable people, namely, children, were left in places they should not have been and came to great harm? Given that there are not enough social workers for the care of the elderly, whose responsibility is it to ensure such a person is safe?