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Updated 7.55pm
THE HSE HAS issued a tender for surveillance and security system solutions.
It follows a Prime Time investigation which highlighted abuse at Mayo care home Áras Attracta.
The tender states that the security is needed to ‘to protect vulnerable clients’:
The Health Service Executive has a requirement for the design and installation of information and communications technology / surveillance and security system solutions in facilities in order to enhance the protection of vulnerable clients, patients, service users and staff members.
The HSE announced a ‘National Summit‘ in the wake of the shocking documentary -which took place on Tuesday.
Speaking on Today with Sean O’Rourke on RTÉ Radio 1, the director general of the HSE Tony O’Brien, said:
“We now need to do things that in the past we wouldn’t have considered doing. In other words all of the steps that one would have expected to be taken have been taken.
We’ve placed the necessary notices to obtain the appropriate advice from specialists as to how we take this forward in terms of both undercover, open filming which is more straightforward, where it can be done in the open and with everybody knowing about it.
“But where we have specific reasons we need to know whether and in what circumstances we can engage in covert filming in order to protect the interests of people who are in fact the most vulnerable clients we have.”
The Health Minister Leo Varadkar said “We cannot assume that what was broadcast by RTÉ’s Investigation Unit last week is the worst in the country” – pointing out that the Swinford facility was well-staffed and had been the subject of inspections by HIQA.
First published 1.19pm
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So the bollards were removed in Nov 2023 by some amadan.
Reported in January by a concerned resident, and the council couldn’t complete the complicated task of replacing the bollards, mitigating the risk at the dangerous junction 4 months after reporting , 6 months after it occurred.
Poor woman. Such needless loss of life on Irish roads. We all need to take collective responsibility and cop on.
Seriously what use are plastic bollards to protect vulnerable cyclists, poor young woman
@Terry Molloy: Drivers see the bollards and should take heed and slow down for cyclists or pedestrians but in this case some headcase removed them resulting needlessly in a young womans death
@barry williams: The article suggests the bollards were ‘dug up’, which requires a lot of effort, and equipment, far more than simple removal.
And time.
There seems to be more to this than meets the eye.
@Jimmy Wallace: If those bollards were in place then the vehicle would have had to strike them – possibly causing damage to the vehicle – to also collide with the cyclist.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: If they are like the ones I’m thinking of, they are flexible when hit and spring back upright afterwards causing no damage to any vehicle. They unfortunately can be screwed out of the ground easily and this used to happen in my local area where young lads would be messing with them at night. They are better than nothing, but no substitute for proper segregated off road cycle lanes which actually protect cyclists and encourage cycling in any countries which have them.
@Terry Molloy: Sad reality is that some drivers are more concerned to avoid scraping their paintwork off a fixed object than to avoid a cyclist. Studies show them slowing down more for bollards than pedestrians/ cyclists
@Longlin: Thanks Longlin.
@Terry Molloy: read what Barry said Terry – they work just understand that..far far better to have them at junctions like that than not…
Large trucks have to drive over these plastic bollards on some roads when turning.
No accountability yet again for our “public servants” who will, yet again, skip off without answering any hard questions.
These cycle lanes are a nightmare where Safety has not been prioritised
Please let the person who removed them get the Karma deserved
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