Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the way in which the Minister for Health and Children and the Health Service Executive can claim that €531 is the average cost of a bed in a nursing home in counties Cavan and Monaghan when the cheapest bed is more like €665, meaning that old age pensioners have to pay more than half their own old age pension to support their spouse in such a nursing home, leaving them €100 per week to exist on.

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