Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion
12:00 pm
Mr. Pat Healy:
In relation to children's services, there is a clear responsibility in the Child Care Act, which provides statutory capacity to act in situations like this. There is no such provision for adult services. It is referenced in the recommendations of the Devine report and so on. The national safeguarding policy is a really strong effort to try to bring about for adults an appropriate safeguarding policy that had not existed before. The Devine report is not the first report but it was an important report that made that recommendation. That is the effort in having a national policy like that, to bring-----