Marie Sherlock (Dublin Central, Labour)

While nursing homes have to register every three years, my understanding is that they do not have to provide financial information. HIQA is registering nursing homes that are potentially insolvent or that are going to become insolvent in the future, and then the HSE has to step in. How many nursing homes did the HSE take over last year and how many has it taken over this year? What is the Minister of State's view with regard to the lack of a review of the financial situation of nursing homes? Clearly, that is contributing to some of the issues relating to profiteering and to the situation with or negotiations on fair deal in terms of the financial viability of some nursing homes.