Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if payments to nursing homes under the fair deal scheme are made from the date of application for the scheme or from the date of sanction; the provision that is made for payment in respect of patients under the winter initiative who after a two week stay in nursing homes are deemed in need of full-time residential care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2582/10]

Áine Brady (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The legislation provides that applicants to the scheme who were in nursing home care on the date the scheme commenced (27th October 2009) shall have their State support backdated to that date. The HSE's Guidelines on the Standardised Implementation of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme state that, subject to overall resources, people who enter nursing homes after the commencement of the scheme will have their financial support paid either from the date that the application was made or from date of admission to the nursing home, whichever is the later.

Individuals who enter nursing home care on a short-term basis but are subsequently deemed to require long-term nursing home care may apply for the scheme and will have their State support backdated in accordance with the HSE's Guidelines.