Nursing Homes Ireland Covid-19 committee meeting 'not about finger-pointing'

Tadhg Daly will appear before the special committee to address what went wrong in nursing homes.

The chief executive of Nursing Homes Ireland, Tadhg Daly has said that today’s meeting of the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee is not about “pointing the finger” or apportioning blame.

Health Information and Quality Authority chief executive Phelim Quinn is expected to raise major shortcomings in the oversight of care for the most vulnerable citizens in nursing homes, the people most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. He is also expected to point out that the current model of private residential care for older persons has no formal clinical governance links with the Health Service Executive.