Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel

Professor Cecily Kelleher:

To be clear, in the early stages of grappling with a pandemic of this scale there was a huge staffing crisis. We are recommending a preparedness plan.

As the committee is aware, we have also discovered the need to have an adequate staffing skill mix and we strongly recommend that be put in place.