Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Good morning to our guests. I have a number of questions related to what happened in the nursing homes last year. It makes for sombre reading that 45% of all those who have died in this State of Covid had been in the nursing home setting. My first question relates to Dr. MacLellan's concluding remark in her opening statement that the HSE national service plan fully recognises pandemic learning and reform requirements, including commitments to commence planning towards a longer term rebalancing of public and private nursing home mix. There is a disparate mix in nursing home ownership in that 80% is private and only 20% is public. What does Dr. MacLellan mean in terms of the rebalancing of the public and private mix?