The Dáil's Special Committee on Covid-19 has heard from representatives from the HSE and the Department for Health after the nursing homes expert panel report was published last month.
Dr Kathleen MacLellan, Assistant Secretary at the Department of Health, said a costing exercise is now under way to implement the recommendations of the report in order to protect the vulnerable cohort of people in nursing homes.
She said additional funding has been made available to the HSE to provide for infection prevention and control and that all bodies involved including the department, the HSE, the National Treatment Purchase Fund are continuing to look at all the costings.