Mr. Jim Breslin:

I might take that question. I know the HSE has supplied a breakdown of figures as between public and private nursing homes. From our look at that, nothing obvious jumps out in terms of a particular trend. The expert panel that has been put in place by the Minister has commenced looking at this. I say this on a very preliminary basis. Our guess at the moment is that the biggest predictor of the number of cases in a nursing home is the extent of community transmission in that local area.

There is a range of other factors and we would be interested in finding out their ranking and order of magnitude. At the moment, however, I think community transmission rather than the size of a facility or whether it is public or private is probably the biggest explanation. We will certainly examine that in some detail. Dr. Henry might add to that.