Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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I wish to make one more comment. It relates to the amendment to Schedule 1 to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. One of the concerns outlined to the committee by the survivors was fear of their reinstitutionalisation and the need for adequate home care packages and housing adaptations to ensure that survivors can live for as long as possible within their own home before the only option presented to them is to go into a nursing home. We can all appreciate that, given their history and what they went through, and that it presents challenges to them that many of the rest of us will never have.

Going back to the very first comment I made about the test for meeting the needs of the survivors in terms of adaptation grants and nursing homes, I do not think the amount provided in this Bill reaches that threshold.