Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:

The Deputy is correct in that we have not proposed a 24-hour nursing care centre for this site. It is our intention that we want to provide the type of independent supported living that we talked about. That, along with the supports we intend to put in and actually have in place at the moment in east Cork, is what we feel to be sufficient to meet the needs of the particular area. If we need a long-stay continuing care facility, it will have to be across a greater geography than just east Cork. Up the main road from us, which is only 15 to 20 minutes away, we have a very substantive HSE-owned site at St. Stephen’s. The St. Stephen's centre, and the Deputy is correct as she mentioned these a little earlier, certainly struggles from a compliance perspective and does not have all of the services in the proper environment that we would like. Our intention would be to replace the unit in St. Stephen’s, which would then be used as a facility for a broader part of the area in the context of the provision of continuing care.