Ms Yvonne O'Neill:

There is nothing in what the Deputy has described that we are not professionally, and in some cases personally, aware of. He will appreciate that we do not have a presence - legislatively, we cannot have a presence - in every nursing home because we are not the provider. We work closely with all providers to provide supports. When a nursing home has had an outbreak and there has been a level of concern about staffing levels, we have worked closely with it to identify agency staff. We have provided HSE staff directly into privately run homes.