The Deputy is wrong in his assertion in terms of the legal advice on nursing home charges. In respect of medical card patients, access to the entirety of their costs in private nursing homes was never conceded. Budgets are going up incrementally and exponentially year after year in terms of an ageing population. By the way, we still have that challenge today but no one wants to pay for it.

All this money is not my money nor the Deputy's, it is the taxpayers' money. We are all birds of passage here, but the Deputy wants 100% retrospection for everything-----

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