Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The HSE community nursing units will always step in if a resident does not have an appropriate place to go. If a person needs to be discharged from an acute hospital and a private or voluntary nursing home is not in a position to take that person because of his or her complex care needs, the HSE will always step in. Under the fair deal scheme, we currently have 4,500 beds in community nursing units, the old county hospitals that we all know.