RTÉ Investigates Over a third of privately operated emergency homeless shelters in the capital had fire safety issues when they were inspected by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE). A failure to update fire logs, to display emergency evacuation routes and to supply fire blankets and carbon monoxide alarms were all noted by inspectors from the DRHE. These inspections, the reports of which have been made publicly available for the first time, were suspended a year ago due to Covid-19. Other inspection regimes, such as those of nursing homes and direct provision centres, have continued during the pandemic. RTÉ Investigates has also learned that just one in six of the DRHE inspections carried out in the year prior to that were subjected to the new National Quality Standards Framework (NQSF).