Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations
Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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I thank the witnesses for their submissions and for attending today's meeting. I will direct my first question to Ms Gibney and congratulate her on her appointment to her new role. On page 2 of her opening statement she discusses the spectre of returning to our institutionalised past. One of the institutions that has been under the microscope a lot during this pandemic is the nursing home. Has the commission done any work on the impact of this pandemic on nursing homes from a human rights perspective? Is there any comment Ms Gibney could make on that?