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Health Action Overseas
Carmichael House, North Brunswick St, Dublin 7
Tel: (01) 873 3173, 9.00am – 4.00pm Mon to Fri Fax: (01) 873 3006
Email: hao@iol.ie Website: www.hao.ie
Operates currently in Romania and China and previously in Albania. Its
mission is to facilitate community-based service development for people
with disabilities overseas. Works in partnership with local authorities in
host countries and supports a rights-based approach to disability service
provision. Committed to the social model of disability, which considers a
person’s disability in the context of barriers to their participation in society.
Health and Safety Authority
Metropolitan Building, James Joyce Street, Dublin 1
Tel: (01) 614 7000, 9.00am – 5.00pm Fax: (01) 614 7020
Email: wcu@hsa.ie Web: www.hsa.ie
National body with overall responsibility for the administration and
enforcement of health and safety at work in Ireland. Monitors and enforces
compliance with the legislation, provides expert advice to employers,
employees and the self-employed and promotes education, training and
research. As necessary, it submits proposals for regulations and codes of
practice to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
Publications: List available on the website.
Health Information and Quality Authority – HIQA
Webworks Building, Eglinton Street, Cork
Tel: (021) 425 0610, 9:00am – 5:00pm Mon to Fri Fax: (021) 425 0645
Email: info@hiqa.ie Web: www.hiqa.ie
Independent authority set up to drive quality, safety, accountability and the
best use of resources in health and social care services, delivered by public,
voluntary or private bodies. Sets the standards for delivering health and social
care services and inspects to ensure that these standards are being met.
Monitors healthcare quality. Carries out assessment of health technology to
ensure resources are used in a way which delivers the best outcome for the
service user. The Social Services Inspectorate is placed within HIQA under the
Health Act 2007. The work of the Inspectorate includes the inspection and
registration of residential services in the public, private and voluntary sectors
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