Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to extend eligibility under the refund of nursing home charges scheme to those psychiatric patients who lived in community accommodation under the supervision of the psychiatric services; the reason these patients were excluded from entitlement under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31609/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The health repayment scheme was launched in August 2006 and is administered by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in conjunction with the appointed Scheme Administrator KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald.

The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provides a clear legal framework to repay recoverable health charges. The scheme covers only those persons with full eligibility who were charged under the Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 1976 or the Institutional Assistance Regulations 1954 (as amended). Applications from or in respect of persons in psychiatric care must be assessed within this legal framework I have outlined.