Ms Susan Cliffe:

We have always had a risk-based response to the information we receive. There are some nursing homes where we have had a concern that may have had three, four or five inspections during a given period. If the profile of the nursing home and the information we had regarding that nursing home mandated an increased requirement for inspections then we have provided and undertaken those inspections. I agree with the Deputy that the more inspections we have, and the more often people go into nursing homes to carry out the baseline inspections, the better we will be. This is the position we are moving towards with an increased inspection regime. We have been allocated additional posts and we have already gone through the process of recruitment. Approximately seven have come on board and we expect to have brought all the posts on board by the end of the second quarter of this year.