Covid-19: Health bodies asked why answers to committee’s questions appeared in media

The Department of Health and HSE will be asked to explain why responses to questions that went unanswered at the Oireachtas committee on Covid-19 last week later appeared in The Irish Times.

The criticism refers to the publication of confidential HSE figures showing a breakdown of where more than 1,000 deaths had taken place in 167 settings in the State during the pandemic. Fine Gael TD Fergus O’Dowd and Fianna Fáil TDs and Mary Butler and John McGuinness criticised the failure to answer questions at the sessions last week, which focused on the impact of the disease on nursing homes.

The figures showed that of 1,030 deaths almost 60 per cent - 601 - were accounted for in 39 settings that saw 10 or more deaths.

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