Sinead O'Carroll
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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So that's a lot of people waiting to be transferred, mostly to residential care centres,
sometimes back to home, but with home supports, about 10% and the rest to rehab.
The average waiting days, waiting to get a step down, to get stepped down into the next bit of care is 25 days across the country.
So I think those, the really eye-watering figures, like 401 days in court, 423 days in the matter, they're probably very complex cases.
The HSE says there's a lot of complex cases because of assisted decision-making and anyone who's probably gone through this will know that
If you do have to go through assisted decision making, that can delay things.
So I think those kind of very large figures are outliers for that reason.
And then the more average ones are things because we are really short of residential beds, particularly dementia specific residential beds.
So it's the whole system not working well together.
It's
Yeah, and I think we've heard this a bit, but there is also it's interesting that it's on the business accounts because you
There is also a large influx of companies who want to provide care in Ireland.
Yeah, and it's very interesting because both sides of the spectrum are having this same conundrum, where in childcare and in dementia care or older age care, we have a lot of massive businesses coming from abroad, but also domestic businesses that have huge amounts of...
care situations across the country and they don't like how they're funded but they're also you know coming here want the business and also making large revenues if not even large profits large revenues so how do you make the business model work if you're a pension fund and you go into this business and you have the capital uh so you're not servicing any loan then you're you're generating a steady state of income which is what pension funds want yeah and i think what what
The missing bit in between is the cost of care as Care Choice, the firm in the centre of this row, because a lot of the people who work there are earning minimum wage.
There is a lot of churn in employment that creates difficulties in maintaining the care facilities.
So there is something in getting the...
the employment right and the employment conditions right, that is costing a lot of money.
Like if you look, I was looking through childcare books of childcare firms recently and the revenues are huge, but the operating costs are also absolutely huge.
So you can see why it's difficult to get the business model right because there are so many different types of business models that are trying to work within the same scheme, whether it's a small independent or a 40, 50 large institution.
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