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The Health Service Executive has failed to address significant breaches of regulations in nursing homes it runs for older people and is in breach of its legal responsibilities, according to Ireland s health quality regulator.
Writing to the Department of Health over several years, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) said, in its view, the HSE was not taking action to address non-compliance in several designated centres for older people.
This was adversely impacting on the quality of life, the wellbeing, privacy and dignity of vulnerable people living in those centres, it wrote.
Separately, HIQA said that children and vulnerable adults in need of emergency placements were being unlawfully placed in unregistered residential services by the HSE because of a lack of suitable accommodation in designated or regulated centres and a failure by authorities to update legislation.