Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)

I thank Deputy Burke. The point he raised is something the Department is very conscious of, as I am. As I said earlier, the Department of Health commissioned the report with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies to specifically look at it last January. It will look at the growth of groups in Ireland delivering nursing homes and the risk that poses in terms of them failing financially and of care. That report is due to come to us in September and these are matters we will consider. What we want here is a model that is safe, sustainable, fair and in particular, is all about the care of the older person. It is something that the Department, I as Minister of State for older people and the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, are aware of and we are doing a body of work around that area.