Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Here is the situation as we know it. Up to 10,000 people in those homes were eligible, a number of them appealed and the appeal was upheld but, because of delays as a result of a court challenge that did not materialise, it was a number of years before those who had appealed were paid. A number of people who had applied in the first instance did not appeal based on the advice of the HSE that they did not stand a chance, whereas the HSE's own legal advice was that they would win those cases and should have fallen under the remit of the scheme.