Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 October 2020

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion

10:15 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

The four factors I summarised are staff-related costs. The fact that staff are permanent pensionable employees, the complexity of care, the higher dependency and the different skill mix among the staff explain some of the variances in costs.