JCP Powdermill Care Centre challenges HIQA fire findings

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JCP Powdermill Care Centre Ltd brought a High Court challenge to HIQA’s fire-safety findings. The proceedings were reported on 17 December 2019. The Ballincollig nursing home sought to have findings in a report quashed and the report removed from HIQA’s website.

The company claimed it was not told all the allegations or given a proper opportunity to respond before the report was published. The court also heard that HIQA wrote to the nursing home in September, stating that fair procedures had been followed, that the home had availed of them and that the final report would be published on 1 October.

Permission to bring the judicial review was granted on an ex-parte basis by Justice Charles Meenan, with the matter listed to return in February.