Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Moving on from that, my understanding is the number of beds in public nursing homes has reduced in real terms but the costs continue to go up. Can efficiencies be created in that area? For instance, some of the public nursing homes got an increase of more than 12% under the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, whereas some of the private nursing homes got an increase of 1.5%. That raises a huge question about efficiencies and improvements on that.