Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a huge amount of dialogue about quarantine, particularly with regard to international travel. Is there any quarantining happening in nursing homes? I will be more specific in what I am asking. I know of a number of cases where an individual may have been discharged from hospital in recent weeks but had not yet been vaccinated for Covid. Rather than going home, it was deemed necessary that this person would go to a step-down facility, that is, a private nursing home close to the person's residence. However, the nursing home residents had all been vaccinated. Therefore, an unvaccinated older person went into a nursing home environment without having been vaccinated. How is that being catered for within the sector? That will improve week-on-week as vaccines roll out but are there mechanisms in place to cater for that? This has caused alarm in cases and people are not aware if there are quarantining or other guidelines in place to mitigate that happening.