Professor Cecily Kelleher:

We agree with the Deputy's point. We make a recommendation, 5.8, regarding occupational health, human resource and psychological supports. We asked the nursing home providers to look at that. We have been clear with the implementation group and the reference group that the mental health aspects of this situation should and must be addressed. This applies to healthcare workers across the sector, but this group of staff is and was particularly vulnerable and we have made several other recommendations regarding employment supports as well. We have had some feedback, as part of the stakeholder exercise, that these supports were being put in place, especially in the larger units with the level of staffing to do it. It is, therefore, a recommendation that we have made.