accommodation

Maintaining security and patient privacy is hampering repair work, with the trust having to explore alternative temporary accommodation, including at Knockbracken Healthcare Park in south Belfast and the Belfast City Hospital.

A recent report by the National Audit Office found funding had failed to keep pace with growing demand for services - particularly social care, support for children with special educational needs and disabilities, and temporary accommodation.

Ms Johnston lived in nursing accommodation in the 1970s and 1980s.

The family has not revealed the cost of the private operation, which involved flights and hotel accommodation, but Ms Butten said there were no regrets and that it was "money well spent".

One sign of a drop in overseas students is that several purpose-built student accommodation blocks are the subject of change-of-use planning proposals to convert them for residential use.