Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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This is the Committee of Public Accounts. We need to have accountability.

The second issue which I want to raise, and I have raised this before, is about the delay in getting people out of public hospitals, where nursing homes are prepared to take patients, but they feel that the fair deal scheme will not be adequate because a person needs a higher degree of care than the normal nursing home patient. I ask Mr. Gloster that this issue be revisited over the next three or four months, because of the fact that at any one time, we have over 500 people in public hospital beds who can be discharged but where that is not possible because we cannot get a facility. I have had a number of cases in Cork, where there were facilities prepared to take them, but they were not prepared to take them at the fair deal price. Can that issue be reviewed?