Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Will the Taoiseach clarify the position regarding public patients sent to the Leas Cross nursing home and, consequently, subsidised by the State? I understand that patients have been transferred from St. Ita's to this facility. What category of patients was involved in that transfer? Is the State subsidising those patients and were they included in the tender?

Various Ministers are on the record of the House for more than five years making the same commitment as that just made by the Taoiseach regarding an independent inspectorate.

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