Revealed: The global investment funds that own our nursing homes

One of the key findings in the KPMG report centres on the corporate structures behind the firms that have been investing in Ireland’s elderly care sector. Photo: Getty Images

Philip Ryan

Just 15 nursing home groups own 40pc of all private nursing home beds in this country, an unpublished government report reveals.

The first major audit of the sector shows global nursing home groups and international investment firms along with a few large-scale Irish operators own 10,720 of all private beds in Ireland.