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

That is fair enough.

My next question is on the nursing home sector. It has evolved over the past 25 years. Back then, the vast majority of homes were publicly run but that is now reversed and the majority are privately-owned. Given the disparate nature of that sector, it is not surprising there is not much joined-up thinking and that, as Ms Casey said in her statement, it is very challenging to collect data. Do the officials agree that because of how the sector has evolved over recent decades, it is difficult to quantify registration and regulation of the sector? We saw during the pandemic it was hugely exposed with respect to resources, staffing levels and how it was dealt with. There are serious questions to be asked about the sector during the pandemic. It is harder to collect that information if the sector is so disparate in nature.