Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister. I appreciate that he has a particularly good grasp of the questions, the answers to which I have been listening. I wish to concentrate on issues he will have heard me speak about before. Most of the people who have died or have been seriously ill as a result of the coronavirus are older people or people with suppressed or impacted immune systems.

What additional steps is the Minister taking to ensure nursing homes, be they public or private, are ready for the winter, particularly for influenza and Covid, or is he satisfied that they are?