Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health
Mr. Robert Watt:
There is an issue in respect of individuals who were in disability centres. There were separate cases I think I mentioned in my opening statement. The Department is looking at this to see if there are other cases and other facilities that may have been covered in similar circumstances to those of the people who appealed and whose appeal was then challenged and where the Department at the time then ensured those people were encompassed within the scheme and were paid during the operation of the scheme. We are therefore looking to see if there are other facilities that encompass similar circumstances. I think there were three in Dublin and there is one in Limerick now. We are looking at that and we have said we will come back within three months.
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