Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

We will deal with that later. I wish to refer to visiting committees. I was a member of a health board for approximately 23 years. It puzzled me that as a member of a health board I was entitled to visit public nursing homes but not private nursing homes. Although they were also receiving subvention from the public purse, we were not able to visit them. However, if one examines how many public nursing home facilities fell into the same category as Leas Cross, the answer is none. I accept that money can be made from private nursing homes but let us be clear. It is patently obvious that a number of those institutions were profit-driven and the comfort and care of the residents came a bad second place.