Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on extending the rule under which the Health Service Executive gives persons in nursing homes a period of six months during which they can prepare property for rent or sale before subvention would be curtailed, bearing in mind the imminent introduction of the new scheme, fair deal, which does require a patient to sell their home, and the difficulty at present in placing properties for rent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5391/09]

Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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Both my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, and I are conscious of the financial burden being faced by individuals in private nursing homes. However, the rule referred to by the Deputy is in fact a statutory period provided for in the Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Act 2007. To amend it would require primary legislation and could take longer than the introduction of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme.