4 Jun 2014, 09:43
The Health Information and Quality Authority’s Annual overview report on the regulation of designated centres for older people – 2013 will be on the agenda of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children tomorrow, 5th June 2014.
4th June 2014
Committee Chairman, Jerry Buttimer TD said: “The Health Information and Quality Authority has published its first annual overview report on the regulation of designated centres for older people. The report summarises the findings of the 697 individual inspection reports published by HIQA during 2013, analyses the regulatory activity that HIQA undertook as a result of these findings and provides an overview on the nursing home sector in Ireland. Tomorrow we will have an opportunity to consider the report in greater detail.”
This meeting will be held in Committee Room 2, Leinster House 2000 at 9.30am on Thursday, 5th June 2014.
Committee proceedings can be followed online here.
Proceedings will also be carried on UPC channel 207. Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the move, through the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.
Media Enquiries to:
Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2
Committee Membership:
Deputies: Jerry Buttimer (Chair), Catherine Byrne, Ciara Conway (Vice-Chair), Regina Doherty, Robert Dowds, Peter M Fitzpatrick, Seamus Healy, Billy Kelleher, Eamonn Maloney, Clare Daly, Sandra McLellan, Dan Neville, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Robert Troy
Senators: Colm Burke, John Crown, John Gilroy, Imelda Henry, Marc Mac Sharry and Jillian Van Turnhout