Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that the State failed in its care for a nursing home resident who was raped by a healthcare worker.
Mr Varadkar told the Dáil that an overseas safeguarding expert will be appointed to examine the case that would "strike terror into the heart of anyone living in a nursing home or anyone who has a loved one in a nursing home".
The healthcare worker, referred to as Mr Z, was jailed for 11 years for the rape of a resident who was known by the pseudonym Emily.
