Ms Mary Dunnion:

I will cover staffing and compliance reports and then hand over to my colleague, Ms Cliffe, with regards to premises.

The Deputy is correct. In the context of staffing levels in nursing homes, there is a regulation which covers staffing. Because it has no baseline of staff requirement, there are no national staffing levels in nursing homes, either for nurses or support staff. In the nursing home sector, most of the staff are support staff to the nursing staff. There is no national dependency tool to assess how dependent the residents are and what clinical, nursing and care support they require. As a consequence, the regulation on this is-----