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.