Mr. David Walsh:

On the HSE or section 38 nursing homes notified to me, a significant number had no deaths whatever and some had significant numbers of deaths.

They were not the highest number of deaths. Regarding private nursing homes, it is important to say that the data that were published were not validated data in terms of confirmed deaths from Covid. Once again, there was not a direct correlation between the nursing homes that HIQA would have had most concern about and those nursing homes with the highest number of RIPs.