Mr. Niall Redmond:

In regard to Deputy Durkan's comments, he is quite right about the importance of rapid access to somebody who is appropriately trained to identify problems as they arise, and more importantly to identify solutions to those problems. I know from the discussion here last week that the HSE has trained up to 30,000 of its staff in safeguarding, something which we welcome. The suggestion of having a designated person or an officer within an institution, a service provider, a nursing home or whatever it might be is worth exploring, particularly for that sort of rapid access, whether in a nursing home or wherever. One would know the person to whom one could bring an issue and who can respond to it. That is something that would be key.