Ms Kate Killeen White:

Droiminín Nursing Home, in Stradbally, County Laois, is going through a legal process with the regulator. The HSE in the region is aware of this private nursing home and we are working with the relevant stakeholders on it. It has not been closed, just to be clear. It is going through a process pursuant to the provisions of the Health Act. We will keep Senator Ryan briefed on this as it progresses. To clarify, it was not closed last week.

With regard to the public units, the CEO has spoken on the compliance rates. There are significant compliance rates and substantially compliance rates, which demonstrate improvement in recent years in the public units. The main areas the 7% non-compliance relates to are governance issues, infrastructure and the premises. The capital programme under way is significant and it was put in place to try to address the compliance concerns around premises. There is ongoing work with all nursing home public units in the regions to address any failings in governance or management, and any area of non-compliance with regard to governance and management. This continues to be progressed through the ordinary governance mechanisms in the region.

There is ongoing work with all nursing homes public units in the region to address any failings or non-compliance in governance and management, which continues to be progressed through the ordinary governance mechanisms within the region. Significant improvement has been demonstrated in our public units over the last number of years from a compliance perspective.