Mr. Robert Watt:

I totally dispute that accusation. I find that very disappointing. Officials in the Department are working incredibly hard on this issue, and on the report produced by the Comptroller and Auditor General, the report produced by the NTPF and the report produced by Tom Ferris. There is also the nursing home expert working group on Covid-19. All those reports cover more or less the same ground. We have implemented the vast majority of the recommendations in those reports. I think I sent the Chairman a note this week setting out once again our response to the vast majority of those. There is one issue about a report, which, I accept, we should have published earlier, but the committee should acknowledge the significant response to these reports that have been set out. This issue is very important. In response to Deputy Burke's earlier comments, the value for money report sets out, in more granular detail, what we broadly know already in terms of this differential. We are committed to working further in terms of what that might mean with respect to the pricing of any supports. The officials in the Department are working on this. They are doing many things. They have responded quite proactively to the recommendations of those various reports.