Ms Mary Dunnion:

There are 580 nursing homes of which 114 are statutory ones. There are 31,000 residents in total, and 5,708 are in HSE-funded centres. When we talk about this sector, it is all nursing homes, as determined in the Health Act. They are called designated centres for older persons.

In the context of the escalations, yes, there was a percentage which were statutory, a lot of those based on the premises. On the risks that were there should there have been a Covid outbreak, I would not be in a position to give that information at this moment but we can certainly furnish the ratio between private and public.