Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people who have received the [i]ex gratia[/i] payment following the illegal nursing home charges controversy; the cost of the scheme to date in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4999/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The ex gratia payment scheme refunded fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged for publicly funded long-stay residential care and who were alive on 9 December 2004. Those qualifying under the scheme were paid up to a maximum of €2,000 and 10,798 persons have received an ex gratia payment to date at a cost of €20.819 million. The payments made under this scheme will be incorporated into repayments made under the national repayment scheme and the national scheme will capture any outstanding ex gratia payments due.