Ms Kate Duggan:

On our residential care, when we wrote our residential strategy in 2022 - the strategy shows all the data we used to inform it - we had a provision of 60:40, whereby 60% of our residential provision was private and 40% was either statutory or community and voluntary. We set out an ambition to first change that to 50:50 provision through the additional 110 beds and then to try to flip to 40:60, with 40% being private and 60% being community, voluntary and State. It is that strategy that led the Department to give us the additional allocation to purchase the units I referred to and in relation to the additional recruitment for those units.