Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Is it envisaged that this will be put on a statutory footing? Guidance is fine and we would all hope that everyone would adhere to it. Guidance will be adhered to, obviously, in the public system. Given the wholesale privatisation of our nursing home sector - 80% of people will be in nursing homes in the private sector - without statutory underpinning of this guidance, does Dr. MacLellan think that this has a reasonable chance of being implemented? Would it be preferable to be belt, braces and baler twine about it and put it on a statutory footing?