Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

More than 70 residents of Beaumont Residential Care in Cork city face an uncertain future after the owners of the centre told relatives last week that they will exit the fair deal scheme at the end of May if the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, does not increase payments to them. Does the Minister agree that no resident should be evicted from any nursing home and that the State has a responsibility to ensure this is the case? Does she also agree that it is not acceptable to give three weeks' notice of such an outcome? Given that the owners of this nursing home own a chain of 14 nursing homes throughout the State and is, in turn, owned by the giant French corporation, InfraVia, does the Minister further agree that its books should be open to inspection not only by representatives of the State, but also by representatives of the relatives?

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