Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason people who were transferred to boarding-out houses in view of the fact that there were no beds available for them in public nursing homes are being excluded in the terms of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. [22733/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Health Service Executive (HSE) has responsibility for administering the Health Repayment Scheme 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 for publicly funded long term residential care including contract beds in private institutions. Recoverable health charges are charges which were imposed on persons with full eligibility under the Health (Charges for In-patient Services) Regulations 1976 as amended in 1987 or charges for in-patient services only, raised under the Institutional Assistance Regulations 1954 as amended in 1965. Applications from or in respect of persons transferred to boarding-out houses must be assessed within this legal framework.