Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There has but the fair deal scheme is still being used to fund people going into these facilities, as we speak. Unless the committee is going to hear something different from the HSE or that practice has very recently ceased, the fair deal scheme and the National Treatment Purchase Fund are still being used to put people into these facilities.

I want to move on to my next question, and I have two left. The Care Quality Commission of the United Kingdom recommended that a clinical lead be appointed by 15 May in respect of each nursing home. Some HSE facilities have a medical officer. By dint of history some do not, but the majority do. However, private nursing homes, be necessity, have no medical officer who is responsible for the medical treatment of the entire community. Is that something that the witness would like to see happen? I am referring to something like what happened in the UK, where there is a clinical lead to be appointed, who is responsible for-----