Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland
Ms Mary Dunnion:
I am not confident that we have brought that as a specific stand-alone item because we have significant concern across the broad range of regulations that are there. Every regulation is dependent upon another so we have raised the issue that the totality of the regulations about care and welfare need to be reviewed as a matter of priority.
As I say, we cannot look at any regulation in isolation. The governance and management, which are key to the safe quality and delivery of service to a resident, comprise one of the key regulations and out of all the others fall care and welfare. We have brought all regulations as requiring updating.