Mr. Pat Healy:

None of those costs are charged against the nursing homes support scheme but the actual cost of care is charged.

I will deal with the actual cost. The Deputy mentioned pay when we talked about the DG's introduction. In his opening statement he identified the five or six differentials which give rise to the differential between private and public cost and one of those is the pay, as the Deputy said. The basic pay rates are pretty much the same. What you will find is that the additional things like pension, maternity, sick leave and so on like that-----