Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Typically, one is reducing the bedding or the bedage in a facility as one brings it into compliance by about a third. Consequently, the total number of public beds has fallen. The public sector would not be able to meet the needs for long-term nursing home care from its existing infrastructure. At the same time, before the economic events of 2008 and beyond there was a significant growth in private sector provision at that time and we are beginning to see that occur again. Does Mr. Healy wish to add anything?