Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Liam Quaide - PQ 35349-26
Deputy Quaide asked if nursing home discharge protocols require verifying and recording will, capacity and decision supports. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and Public Affairs
Published: May 2026
Updated: September 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health whether any national protocol requires that a person’s will and preference, capacity, decision-support arrangements, advance healthcare directive, enduring power of attorney or decision-making representation order be checked before discharge to a nursing home; and whether such checks are recorded.
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