Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department is looking at exactly those issues. As I said, it will come down to a case-by-case basis. The advice I have is that it would not be applied as broadly as the scheme for nursing homes which were broadly defined as inpatient services. The question really is in what individual institutions, and in what individual cases, were they deemed to be household charges rather than inpatient services.

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