Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016

9:00 am

Ms Mary Dunnion:

The way regulation is determined now is that HIQA has to register a building and the care within that building.

It does not matter whether the care provided in the building is for those with high-dependency needs, for very dependent people or for older people who can walk around. The same regulation applies, because that is the way it is designed.