Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am fully aware of that. I looked at the Health Service Executive arguments, which claimed there was a high level of dependency for various reasons in the public nursing homes which was one of many reasons that led to higher prices. Another was that its public nursing homes function in a different way. For example, the public nursing home in Carraroe has other functions. It runs a day centre in Carraroe and has many other functions in the community which a private for-profit nursing home would not have. That was another issue raised by the HSE among other issues that lead to higher costs.