Nursing home in RTE ‘abuse' doc scandal being probed by gardai following family ‘complaints' after ‘haunting scenes'
GARDAI have launched an investigation into one of the nursing homes at the centre of RTE's shocking exposé last week, the Irish Sun can reveal.
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Tanaiste Simon Harris called on gardai to investigate the shocking incidents
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The RTE doc revealed patients being roughly handled in a nursing home
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Both nursing homes included in the investigation – The Residence in Portlaoise and Beneavin Manor in
The family of one resident named Audeon Guy at Beneavin Manor have since gone public with their fury after footage showed their dad being roughly handled as he pleaded with staff to stop.
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A Garda spokesperson said: 'An Garda Siochana cannot comment on third party statements, or on named persons or businesses.
'An Garda Siochana has commenced an investigation following complaints received from a family relative of an older person.'
The Irish Sun can confirm that the nursing home that gardai are now investigating is Beneavin Manor in Dublin.
Earlier, Tanaiste Simon Harris called on gardai to investigate the shocking incidents exposed in the RTE documentary which he claimed amounted to abuse.
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'There are laws in our land today. There are laws in relation to assault.
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"There are laws in relation to how we conduct ourselves and I would urge that a referral is made to An Garda Siochana in relation to the footage that we saw.
'Because what I saw with my own two eyes, the haunting scenes of people being, in my view, physically assaulted in their
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'I do think there is a need for a garda investigation into what we saw in relation to the individual actions of people in relation to that.'
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The Dublin TD questioned why Ireland does not have minimum staffing rules for nursing homes and criticised the government for allowing the sector to become dominated by big
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The Minister is also expected to meet HIQA next week to discuss their policing of the nursing home sector amid criticism that the watchdog failed to pick up on the problems in the two homes in RTE's expose.
Underfire HIQA bosses will also be hauled into a Dail committee next week to be grilled about their checks on nursing homes.
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