Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If I try to come to a sense of the efficiency of these committees, it has to be based on the results. I will present very briefly three issues I have raised consistently. I have called for a root and branch fully independent inquiry into all care facilities for citizens with intellectual disabilities. We have had three reports, one on Áras Attracta and HIQA reports on Redwood and, most recently, St. Mary's in Drumcar. These are the most vulnerable people in the care of the State. With regard to the questions I raised earlier, the Taoiseach acknowledged without a blink that the Government had not implemented all the recommendations of a report which reviewed the deaths of 196 children in the care of the State. He said the Government's intention is to do so. He has not done it and he has only whatever time he has left in this term. An issue which has almost become normal is citizens on trolleys, including most recently two citizens who were alive during 1916. Today, there are 397 patients on trolleys, 41 of whom are in my constituency in Our Lady of Lourdes-----

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