Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 June 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland

9:00 am

Mr. Tadhg Daly:

We have been very clear from the outset of the scheme. When the scheme was launched in 2009, as an organisation we sought leave for judicial review of the scheme on the basis of the definition of long-term residential care services. We were very concerned at the narrow definition of long-term residential care services and the fact that it explicitly excluded many of the services that would be regarded as being included in such a scheme. We concur with the Ombudsman's concern around the fact that on the one hand a resident pays 80% of his or her income and then on the other hand he or she is told that it does not cover everything because the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, under section 40 of the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009, has defined a long-term residential care service. That is why we have included that in appendix three to show the committee exactly what is included and excluded.

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