Ms Carol Grogan:

In some nursing homes we have found challenges with staffing. In some cases the nursing home management will choose to reduce the number of people they may have in the centre. If there are free beds they will not admit anyone else into the facility until they are able to recruit staff and have the necessary resources that they need to have in place. For the most part, it was probably a bigger issue last year then this year. Coming out of Covid some providers did have difficulties recruiting staff