Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry; no. I was trying to be helpful when I said that 452 submissions had been received in the last couple of weeks from the various bodies and that to date, 23 nursing homes have been paid. It is very helpful that we have that information in now and we are going to pay out as quickly as possible. We are all frustrated by the number of people who are still waiting. Approximately 60,000 people are still waiting to be paid and we want to make sure they are paid before Christmas. I was just trying to be helpful in providing that number of 452 submissions from those who are entitled to be paid.

One of the issues we had during the height of the pandemic, especially in the nursing home sector, was that many workers initially worked across multiple sites. That was one of the reasons we were trying to verify the matter as much as possible.