Róisín Shortall calls for health chief to clarify nursing homes issue

Róisín Shortall said there were a number of documents that are critical to this entire issue that needed to be published. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall has called on the secretary general of the Department of Health Robert Watt to come before the Oireachtas Health Committee to clarify details about the State’s legal actions in relation to nursing homes.

Ms Shortall, who was a minister of State in the department in 2011, noted that she did not have any role in terms of nursing home care or long stay care as she was responsible for primary care.