Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:
I would say that it has happened by default. I feel that over the years private nursing home capacity increased significantly while public capacity significantly fell. Again with good reason because with the introduction of the residential standards in 2009 and even before then, many of the buildings and residences themselves in public nursing homes were of poor quality and had high levels of occupancy, particularly in bedrooms. We had to reduce our bed stock.
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