Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Committee on Public Petitions
Nursing Home Casebook: Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall
1:30 pm
Mr. Peter Tyndall:
Yes. Care staff accompanying residents as part of the social programme have time charged for in that context rather than as part of the fee. There are many of these issues. There is nothing illegal or wrong about that but the outcome is wrong. That is the problem. It is not that people are gaming the system, so to speak, but that there is probably not sufficient funding going into each individual to cover what we regard as the basic necessities of life, which include some social element.
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