Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Aindrias Moynihan for raising the particular issue, which I will examine personally. As the Deputy said, HIQA has the responsibility to do the inspection and as part of that it works with the providers of residential care to ensure that a plan is put together in order to meet standards and then come up with a report. Oversight and ensuring standards are raised remains with Tusla and my Department. That is where the responsibility lies in that regard. They are supported and complemented by HIQA continuing with its investigations over a period. That is the process that is currently in place. What I have also tried to describe in terms of the wider breadth of the residential centres is that Tusla is also developing more efforts in terms of its ACTS team to support what goes on within the centres in order to ensure those standards are raised.

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