Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if patients from this State who were accommodated in Northern Ireland nursing homes due to unavailability of beds in nursing homes south of the Border and from whom payments were illegally withheld will be reimbursed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11689/05]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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The placing of a person in a private nursing home is a private matter between the person or his or her representatives and the nursing home proprietor, as are the fees charged in these facilities. In the case of a patient who normally resided in this State, choosing private nursing home care in the North of Ireland a subvention could be paid by the HSE in the area where they normally resided. This payment could be made in accordance with the Nursing Home Regulations 1993 provided that the nursing home in the North of Ireland was registered by a health and social service board there.