Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The increase, even though it is small, is costing somewhere in the region of €53 million. There is a cost for discharging people into long term care. I fully appreciate that it is creeping up at a slow rate but it is creeping up nonetheless. It needs to be reversed. Significant money is being spent because it is not going in the right direction; it is actually costing us.