‘Appalling’ nursing homes remain open, says FG

SEVEN nursing homes which were the subject of “the most appalling and disgraceful reports” remain open, the Dáil heard yesterday.

Fine Gael TD Fergus O’Dowd, who has campaigned for several years for improvements in this area, said nothing had changed since the substandard conditions at the Leas Cross nursing home in Dublin were exposed a year ago.

“Leas Cross is the scandal of which we are most publicly aware in this area, but it is not even on the list of bad nursing homes the Health Service Executive (HSE) gave me in 2001,” he said.