Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am asking if the Department would check that issue. The Office of Wards of Court was not convinced that people in private nursing homes had an entitlement to claim. This is why I am wondering if there was any correspondence. That would be interesting.

I want to move on to another issue. There is a lot of focus on a memo in 2011. Surely there were memos advising the Government in 2005 and in 2006. For instance, I earlier raised the Statute of Limitations going back six years to December 1998. There would have been memos on that. It would also be helpful for the committee if we were to get copies of the ads were placed in newspapers in 2006 about the people who were entitled to claim. There is very much a focus as if this all occurred in 2011, when in fact the issue about who could claim arose in 2005 or 2006. It would be interesting to see copies of the notifications that were published at that stage. Perhaps the committee could be furnished with those.