Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health
Mr. Robert Watt:
I wrote to the HSE yesterday and we are committed to working with the HSE. I have to go back and establish the number of people who would have been in those institutions and whether the services they were in receipt of could be encompassed within the broad definition of inpatient services set out by the Act and, therefore, could be encompassed by the redress scheme. That work is ongoing, so we do not have an answer to the Deputy's question at this stage.
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