Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

High-dependency is the big argument. The HSE is aware of the high-dependency rate in the public nursing homes. The issue with private nursing homes is that the HSE tends to not want to know because the private nursing homes want remuneration under the fair deal scheme to increase where a patient is deemed to be high-dependency. That issue has not been resolved and has been going on for some time. That is one problem we have. It is convenient for the HSE not to know the high-dependency numbers for private nursing homes.