Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

I do not have the detail. The CFO may have some of the detail. The figure the Deputy mentioned for legal cases and whatever is related to the overall operation of the repayment scheme. If there are legal costs in that relating to individuals in private nursing homes, they relate to their application under the scheme and the processing of that application. That would be a refusal under the scheme because they are not eligible under what the Oireachtas has set out. I do not believe it would include costs. Separate to that, where they subsequently took a case having been refused under the scheme because they did not meet the criteria, it should not and, I believe, would not cover those costs.

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