Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015

9:00 am

Mr. Pat Healy:

The key thing, as set out earlier, is that we are implementing a statutory scheme which is set out very clearly in a law passed by the Oireachtas in 2009. The scheme sets out clearly what is funded under the nursing homes support scheme and we are prohibited from charging anything else into it. What we are allowed to charge and what can be funded properly under the scheme are bed and board, the nursing and personal care appropriate to that, basic aids and appliances and laundry. The list of other things is separate from that. In the public side, we would not charge for additional components like that but we-----