Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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That will have an effect on people accessing public healthcare and so on.

I have another question that I will direct to Mr. Gloster. It relates to private nursing homes essentially going to the wall. There have been a number of cases this year, including Lucan Lodge and a nursing home in Kerry, I believe. They are care providers that have been there for a period and that lost their licences, via HIQA, for all sorts of reasons. In the case of Lucan Lodge, the company involved went into liquidation. I submitted a parliamentary question over the summer to ask how much it cost the HSE to intervene. The amount involved was colossal. It was €600,000 in the space of three and a half months. The sums are colossal. The HSE has to pick up the tab. How concerned is Mr. Gloster about private nursing home providers going to the wall?