Ms Breda Crehan-Roche:

I thank Mr. McCallion. We work very closely with our colleagues in the Saolta University Health Care Group with regard to step-down beds, respite and transitional funding. We have ongoing communication with them. We also work very closely with the private nursing homes with regard to beds. That is an ongoing issue. There are daily numbers on beds, vacancies and visibility. We work very closely on that. We had a very good meeting with Nursing Homes Ireland recently as well. It is, therefore, an ongoing process. We also have the integrated care programmes for older people, ICPOP, teams, the frailty at the front door service and also outreach clinics in relation to keeping people from having to go into the acute services they would be seeing within their communities in the enhanced community care, ECC, ambulatory hubs.