Ms Angela Fitzgerald:

It is a fair question. I have touched on it already but I am happy to elaborate. What I have said before, on which I might ask Mr. Colfer to contribute as required, is that we have the powers to regulate the provider. With respect to the corporate entities, we do not currently have any powers to require them to take action or to impose regulatory action on them. To put it into context, there are 23 nursing homes owned by Emeis and we have to apply sanctions or actions to each in response to something that may be at corporate level. In this instance, Emeis has stepped up and agreed to take the action. To answer the Deputy’s question, it is important that we have additional powers so that, in circumstances where we need to act with the corporate entity-----