Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It must be acknowledged that there has been a transformation in the nursing home sector as a result of the successful implementation of the vaccination programme. As we move through the variety of supports to different sectors, there will come a stage when we must move to investment mode in the future. We will work with the nursing home sector on the next phase of this. The provision of the outbreak assistance scheme gives an underpinning and security to the nursing home sector in the event of something untoward happening, such as a spike in cases in a given nursing home. So far, the impact on the disease of the vaccination of the over-65s cohort has been quite dramatic.

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