Ivor Callely (Fianna Fail)

As I stated, a bed may be occupied for three, five or seven years. There is also a bond between the proprietor of a nursing home and the people involved in the provision of the services to the individual, and there is a mourning process in which they are involved. On providing for this cutting of the tie three days later, we should be more sensitive to those providing the service and a three-day period strikes me as just a little short. I am not pushing anything here. I am just asking the Minister of State to tease it out a tiny bit.