Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

I am not. The legislation was quite clear and the eligibility criteria were quite clear in terms of medical card holder in a public community nursing unit or a publicly funded, contracted bed in a private nursing home. There were certain criteria whereby residents needed to be alive or have deceased at a certain stage and the money gone to the estates. It was a formally organised scheme externally run largely by the scheme administrator, which is a consortium of a firm of accountants and a firm of lawyers. There were no reasons for claims submitted and processed to be refused other than what is in the scheme as per the legislation.