Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the Deputy will appreciate, the new scheme is in its very early stages. It is in its infancy. We have just completed the public consultation process and we are starting to design the scheme. All of those issues will be considered. We cannot pre-empt that consideration by jumping ahead and saying we will discourage people from trying to avoid being discharged by providing a financial incentive to stay at home rather than gong to a nursing home. We cannot do that under the current arrangement.