Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 June 2025
907. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of times restrictions were applied on the admission of new residents to nursing homes by the Health Information and Quality Authority, for each nursing home, for each year 2015-2025, in tabular form. [34403/25]
View answerThe Chief Inspector of Social Care and the Health Information Quality Authority (HIQA) is the national independent regulator of designed centres for older people including public community nursing units and private nursing homes.
Department of Health officials directed this query to HIQA who have advised the following:
|
Year |
Number* |
|
2015 |
Data Not Available |
|
2016 |
Data Not Available |
|
2017 |
Data Not Available |
|
2018 |
6 |
|
2019 |
2 |
|
2020 |
9 |
|
2021 |
4 |
|
2022 |
8 |
|
2023 |
17 |
|
2024 |
31 |
|
2025 |
5 |
* These figures reflect conditions where admissions were ceased to some or all of the designated centre.
