Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

From a systems, practices and procedures point of view, this is wholly unacceptable. Can the witnesses provide a breakdown of the numbers of high-dependency residents in private nursing homes versus public ones? Do they keep a record of that at all?

I refer to medical card charges. Pensioners have an entitlement to a medical card whether they are in a private or public nursing home, though people predominantly raise the private ones with us. If a pensioner is ordinarily resident in the community, he or she is entitled under the medical card to get-----