Ms Anne O'Connor:

Our winter plan for last year carried into our service plan for this year. We had planned to develop 612 public beds and to develop access to approximately 555 private beds through a contract. We have put in place 288 of the public beds and 479 of the private beds have been contracted. With regard to community-based beds, we have a considerable number of traditional long-term residential care beds around the country. We have been converting many of those to more rehabilitation-oriented beds to support discharge from hospital and to prevent admission to hospital.