Mr. Seán Flood:

No, they are not. We do everything on an evidence-based basis. We have all this detail on our website for anybody who is interested. We operate through four criteria. When we engage with a nursing home, in the first instance we send out a renewal pack and the home completes its operational, financial, staffing levels and all that kind of data. There will then be questions seeking more information. Then we apply our four criteria. These are the price previously charged, costs recently and prudently incurred, the county average and the budgetary constraints of the State. We deal with nursing homes on an individual basis and we apply the same criteria consistently and fairly to each individual nursing home.