Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes. I will just make two quick points. First, as the Chai will be aware, we have just finished a really important transition for the remaining hospices to move from section 39 to section 38. It was very expensive. It was many times more than the initial estimate from the hospices. The Government made the funding available and it is making a big difference now. The funding really is putting the remaining hospitals on a sustainable footing. That is one of the things that has been done around section 39s.

As the Chair will be aware, the largest 300 section 39s went through a process some years ago. The question we were then faced with was that there were many more smaller ones. Progress has been made on that and Ms McGirr might give an update.