Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 February 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes

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

Can we have a breakdown of the number of people who died in public nursing homes over the past two months? The last time the numbers worked out at 80:20. Up to 80% of nursing homes are in the private sector and 20% in the public sector. Has there been any variation from those numbers?

Are there any new challenges in the nursing homes that were not there in the first outbreak of Covid? Ms O'Neill referred to about 30% of nursing homes having had Covid outbreaks. Why does she think that occurred and what contributed to that?

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