David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Watt will agree that it was like a lottery system. If a medical card holder happened to get a public nursing home place, he or she was compensated, but if he or she was one of the unlucky medical card holders who had sought public nursing home places but, because none was available, ended up in private nursing homes, there was no compensation for him or her, through no fault of his or her own.