Mr. Phelim Quinn:

In the course of recent years, we have written to the Department of Health on many occasions regarding the regulatory framework and the way that framework impacts on the sector. One of the key issues, for example, even concerning the advent of Sláintecare and planning for a statutory home care scheme, is that we have submitted several regulatory models to the Department of Health. They try to account for the older persons care pathway to ensure the regulatory framework spans that pathway and is not specific to individual care settings. I believe issues such as clinical governance could be addressed in that.