Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Would there be any logic to the equivalent of the fair deal in the home setting kicking in at the point where the medical people say the person in question can now go home? Rather than kicking in when the person walks out the door, maybe it should kick in when he or she is fit to go elsewhere. I wonder whether that is a possible way of trying to address this issue. Mr. O'Brien has said that it probably accounts for a small number of cases, but I would say there are varying degrees of it as well.