Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Finbarr Colfer:

Regarding our inspections, there are a number of things that are important to bear in mind. One is that meeting regulatory requirements is the basic minimum requirement. In the centre in question, what we did find was it had a troubled regulatory history. It was putting measures in place to address that, and when we went out in November, our inspectors found that those measures had started to be put in place. What we found when we went back out on inspection recently was there had been a complete change.