Probe into anti-competitive conduct in private nursing home sector

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has confirmed that it is examining information it received about potential anti-competitive conduct in the private nursing home sector.

It comes as the public accounts committee is to discuss governance issues with executives from the Health Information and Quality Authority today.

The committee wants to examine further matters relating to the reported attendance of Hiqa chairman Brian McEnery with members of Nursing Homes Ireland in October 2015.