Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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436. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that night nursing staff at a community nursing home (details supplied) in County Mayo are not adequate; the steps being taken to rectify the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29050/21]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point. Separately I have arranged that the HSE's National Older Person’s Office be made aware of the Deputy’s concerns.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), is the statutory independent regulator in place for the nursing home sector, whether a HSE managed or a private nursing home. I consider that it would be important that they are aware of the issues that you raise and I have asked officials in the Department to inform the Chief Inspector of your concerns. As a regulator HIQA has no formal legal role in examining individual complaints, however, the Authority does take into account all information it receives, including complaints from the public, when carrying out inspections.