Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

I suspect what the Deputy might be referring to there, and Ms O'Neill and I have spoken to the CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland as a result of its census which was developed and fed back through the weekly process, is that it said it had beds and asked if there was scope to use them. We gave that information to our own system and followed on the census to see whatever else was there. Can I make a really important point? The chief officers and the CHOs in the hospitals locally are the key people. It is not what we know in the centre. They know what is going on in each of the nursing homes and make contact locally. There could well be a nursing home that will not have contact for eight weeks because there is not an appropriate patient who wants to go to that particular home. It is the individual's choice and people have a choice of where they go for long-term care.