Mr. Damien McCallion:

On private beds, community beds are another important part of that. We purchase what are called transitional care beds for up to ten weeks. This is where someone will have to go to long-term care and, rather than stay in the acute hospital, we purchase that bed so the person can go through the fair deal and all the medical assessment and so on before moving to their new home in a nursing home. That is important. Over 600 of those beds are utilised through that period. That is a big number that facilitates that flow from hospital we spoke about.