Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent public and national concern, namely, the lack of an independent inspection of residential institutions where upwards of 7,000 intellectually disabled adults and children live, the absence of legislation to permit the Irish Social Services Inspectorate to inspect care homes for disabled children and the urgent need to adopt the national standards for disability services presented to the Government last October and passed over to the Health Information and Quality Authority, a body that is yet to be established.

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