Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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We have now identified problems which also happened in public nursing homes. I think we put in more than €48 million into doing considerable work on public nursing homes. Do we now need to prioritise funding of the infrastructure of mental health services, especially in CHO 4, to make sure we have an adequate number of places and that they are up to the required standard that we need? How long will it take us to put in place a development plan to deal with that? Our backs are to the wall with regard to the challenges facing staff and residents.