Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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2268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations, audits, inquiries and protected statements received and carried out by the HSE, HIQA and his Department into residential care institutions of any kind since January 2020. [37198/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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A significant element of the parliamentary question raised by the Deputy relates to information held by 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.

According to records held by my Department, one protected disclosure in relation to a residential care facility has been received since January 2020.

The National Patient Safety Office of my Department also received fifteen inspection reports undertaken by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) against the National Standards for Infection Prevention and Control in Community Services in Rehabilitation and Community Inpatient Healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.These reports are included in the information provided below by HIQA regarding the number of inspections carried out and protected disclosures received between January 2020 and July 2021.