Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The contract has a clause stating that there may be additional charges. Nursing homes may be using a single form of contract for both scheme and non-scheme patients. For a non-scheme patient, if the dependency rate increases then the charge may be increased. The difficulty we had with it is that that is not allowed for a scheme patient but there is some confusion because the contract a scheme patient has with a nursing home actually states that there may be additional charges. It is confusing and that kind of confusion is unnecessary. It should not be a great onus on a nursing home to produce two different kinds of contracts, one of which states quite clearly that there will not be additional charges. That is the point to which we were trying to draw attention.