Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-02
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

2001. By the way the report also found, and this is important, that people who had gone to private nursing homes were, in fact, entitled to public nursing home care but none were available to them and they were forced into the private system. The Tánaiste is still saying these people were not entitled to this care when that report made it clear that they were. Another report in 2003 by the Human Rights Commission said the same thing. There was another report in 2010 by the Ombudsman, entitled Who Cares?, while the Tánaiste was Minister in the Government. Where was his moral compass when it came to acknowledging the rights and entitlements of vulnerable people? How could he treat people in that disgusting fashion?

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