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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: It also needs more accountability. I regularly read HIQA reports and understand how busy staff have to be just to do the organisation's statutory duty of care. I am sure inspectors are worn out with the travel required to do their jobs to the best of their ability. However, a lacuna remains, as do abuses that needed to be rooted out. I apologise for rushing but I have to ask the Taoiseach...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: The law is an ass. One individual is a director of 11 nursing homes where there are serious concerns about fire safety, financial irregularities and the quality of care, and some concerns about food. For all of those matters, HIQA is hidebound by the law. The Garda needs to be notified.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Thank God. I do not know what happens in the case of a company that is malfunctioning. I know they are separate companies. We need to put somebody in straight away to take over that place. That is essential. What is happening there is unforgivable. I appreciate Ms Grogan is doing her best. However, accountability to HIQA is being avoided by the law. There have been issues around fire...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: The problem with those inspections is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----that they do not take place at night or at weekends. The vast majority, although not all of them, take place between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. I accept that the vast majority of them are unannounced but how many inspections take place-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I will, of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: The staff might be looking to go-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have to go as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am entitled to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am entitled to my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am not finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: What I am trying to explain-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Okay, fair enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am not. I will say one final thing and I accept what the Cathaoirleach has said and his criticism of me. My problem is that I have a question to the Taoiseach on this issue, which is why I am watching the clock. I apologise for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Could I meet-----