Mr. Paul Reid:

The figure of €27 million is what the HSE has provided through funding from Government directly to the nursing home sector. Along with that, the temporary assistance payment scheme has been put in place to support nursing homes with other funding costs they will have had. There has been a further spend on that to date of approximately €11 million but we project that, up to 5 June, the probable spend will have been closer to €26 million. The spend we have provided directly to nursing homes was very significant. I will give the context, as I have pointed out before, that in any normal given year, the HSE would spend between €15 million and €20 million on PPE. That is in normal times.