Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In the Estimates €25 million was allocated for 2015, of which €3 million is being brought forward to deal with patients being discharged. Funding has just been approved for 1,000 nursing home support - fair deal - scheme places; 700 routine approvals have been accelerated, while there have been 300 additional approvals in anticipation of €10 million in funding becoming available in January 2015 to deal with the issue of delayed discharges. This means that the waiting time for fair deal scheme approval will be reduced to between 12 and 15 weeks in quarter one of 2015.

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