Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

No. If we look at the people who are waiting for a home, last week, on 10 January, there were 524 people whose discharge was delayed and 220 of those were waiting for long-term care. For people who went into hospital thinking they would come out of hospital the following week, the fact that their permanent home will change from wherever it was to being some nursing home somewhere is a big change for families and the individual patients. There is, therefore, a process to go through in engaging with families and there are clinical assessments and administrative forms to be done. The Deputy is right that this traditionally happened while the patient was in the acute hospital.