Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

In view of the appalling inadequacy of the inspection regime, has the Taoiseach called in the Health Services Executive to ascertain on whose instructions advance notice of inspection was, and is, given to all nursing homes? That is akin to giving the question papers to next week's leaving certificate students. It is a complete failure of this Government to have introduced an inspection regime that is utterly inadequate. It is a further failure that it takes a programme like "Prime Time" to expose a scandal in a particular nursing home. There is evidence that the problems exposed may exist in a number of other nursing homes.

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