Dr. Colm Henry:

I might just come in here. The figure given by the Deputy is correct if we look at nursing homes and community hospitals which provide long-term care. These are public units as opposed to private nursing homes. The breakdown given by the Deputy is therefore approximately correct. Bearing in mind the particular risk for older people in congregated settings, whatever setting that might be, we went beyond the literal interpretation of the residential care settings in this vaccination programme for people in category 1 and included any areas where older people were present in congregated settings, including mental health facilities. The risk for people in those facilities was as great as for people included within a strict definition of those in category 1. The approximate figures given by Deputy are therefore correct because there are private nursing homes and also community hospitals and long-term residential care facilities in the public sector, which comprise a minority of the provision of care for older people in congregated settings.