A major shortfall in the provision of residential care homes is like to emerge from the combination of:

(a) The increasing demand from the rapidly growing and ageing population of the Cork Metropolitan Area for care homes in general and particularly for those specialising in dementia care;

(b) Increasing obsolescence within the existing stock and the need to adapt existing facilities to provide specialised services such as dementia care and to achieve the new standards which will now be required as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic;

(c) The need for more sustainable locations for care homes so that they are close to existing centres of population and accessible to high frequency public transport.