Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

However, I can give the Deputy an assurance. As he is aware, there are 23,600 fair deal patients under my brief, of whom the 12 patients in the Rosalie unit have probably occupied approximately 20% of my time in this role. I have engaged with representatives and visited the unit numerous times. Indeed, I have often engaged with the Deputy. Regarding the up-to-date position, local representatives insisted on an independent review of the clinical assessment of patients' needs. We undertook that review process, but it was halted half-way through because the person undertaking it did not feel like the most appropriate person to do it. The process was reinitiated, but it has not concluded yet. As soon as the independent review of the clinical advice given to us and the HSE is completed, it will be given to me. Then and only then will the next steps of this process take place.

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