Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

My understanding from the interdepartmental group report, which came out in mid-2021, and my recollection, is that the cost of making provision for payments at a similar rate to people who were in institutions for less than six months as a child would have been an additional €300 million. That would have brought the overall cost of the scheme to €1.1 billion. If an enhanced medical card were to be provided to everybody who was there for six months or less, as well as those who were there for over six months, I think the overall cost would go to €1.6 billion.