Mr. Tadhg Daly:

No. The current guidance says that a person coming from an acute hospital should be in isolation for a period of 14 days. That was not public health policy at the time, but it would have been practised in most nursing homes. This was compounded by the fact that if nursing homes had large numbers of asymptomatic residents, then we could have staff members caring for residents who subsequently tested positive. These staff members would also have been caring for other residents within a particular nursing home.