Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

There are some good examples in both the public and private sectors. However, the private sector may determine the location of nursing homes. In my own area, for example, there are quite a lot of nursing home facilities and people from Dublin will be located in County Kildare because of that. Some of that has to do with the availability of land. Some of the facilities tend to be on the periphery of towns and are isolated. Without predetermining or setting a set of standards for the quality of life of somebody interacting with the community, does that come into play at all in terms of the policy approach to this? Or is it very much the offering from the private sector?