David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context

No, it is a matter for the Minister of State and the Government. I need to outline this from my perspective. The Government has allowed a situation to arise where we have drifted from a majority of nursing homes being publicly run to a majority of nursing homes being privately run. Even within that, what are called "mom and pop" nursing homes - the family-run nursing homes - have been run out of the market and the corporates have come in and cut costs and are providing substandard care. We saw outlined that one of them had, over a number of years, 198 allegations of suspected or confirmed abuse of a resident.