Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents of nursing homes disaggregated by the number or percentage of residents in private and voluntary nursing homes and in public nursing homes. [9353/20]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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The Health Information and Quality Authority has advised the Department that there are 575 designated centres registered to provide 32,110 beds, of which 443 are private nursing homes registered to provide 25,361 beds (79% of registered beds), 5 Voluntary Section 38 Arrangement centres registered to provide 450 beds (1.4%), 14 Voluntary Section 39 Assistance centres registered to provide 623 beds (1.9%) and 113 Public (HSE) centres registered to provide 5,676 beds (17.7%).

Please note that the number of registered beds is a maximum figure and that not all beds are occupied at all times.