Question from Deputy Liam Quaide - PQ 34773-26

To ask the Minister for Health the specialist supports that are available to nursing homes when a resident's care needs increase, including access to geriatric medicine, psychiatry of later life, palliative care, dementia-specific supports, behavioural support, tissue viability nursing, dietetics, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and social work; whether access to these supports is recorded nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter.