Nursing Homes Ireland will tell the Special Oireachtas Committee on Covid-19 that State organisations left Nursing Homes and their residents isolated in the early days of the pandemic.
In his opening statement, seen by RTÉ News, the CEO Tadgh Daly will tell the Committee that when the pandemic began, patients were discharged from acute hospitals to nursing homes without being tested for Covid-19.
This is the second sitting of the Oireachtas Committee which is examining Ireland’s response to Covid 19.
Today, Nursing Homes Ireland and the Health Information and Quality Authority will discuss their roles in managing the virus in the Nursing Home sector.
In his opening statement the CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland will say that Nursing Homes were isolated “in the early days” of the pandemic.
Tadgh Daly says that’s because the focus was on keeping the virus out of hospitals.
Mr Daly’s opening statement also says the National Treatment Purchase Fund – responsible for the commissioning of nursing home care – “fell silent” as homes incurred considerable and responsible costs to manage the pandemic.
HIQA will also go before the Committee. It will say there was no national clinical oversight of the care being given in the sector.
After that the Committee will turn to the subject of Direct Provision – when representatives of the Department of Justice and Equality and the HSE will discuss conditions and infection control in those settings.
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