Ms Laura Casey:

It is not something that comes up much on the nursing home side. It is an issue HIQA brought up with us more in the context of disability centres, and it can happen with emergency placements that people are placed in centres that are not on the register. It is more on that side than the nursing home one, to be honest. This is really an avoidance of doubt measure. In legislation in other regulatory areas, it is a power generally given to regulators when they understand there are activities happening in a centre or business that is not registered. It is for the avoidance of doubt and to put it beyond legal question that the regulator will have this power. It is very similar to the powers of entry the authority has already for registered centres.