Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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709. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that families have been left extremely distressed by the fact that a Minister of State at his Department was in possession of a report (details supplied) for some months and that the families concerned first learned of the contents of the report from the media; and if he will fulfil the request by the families for an unredacted copy of the report to be made available to them immediately. [6288/22]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Following a Prime Timeprogramme in which the nursing homes referenced by the Deputy were featured, I convened a meeting with the Chief Inspector of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). In the context of that meeting, I requested a briefing report, to include the current position regarding those nursing homes. This was prepared by HIQA and was submitted to me in July 2021. The report was based on the findings of HIQA’s inspection reports on the three centres.

The Chief Inspector, HIQA, reports on their inspection findings and judgments in an inspection report. In the context of the three nursing homes in question, HIQA has confirmed that the inspection reports on which the briefing note was based have all been published on HIQA’s website in line with the normal regulatory process.