Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 652: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify whether an institution (details supplied) in County Limerick is covered under the health repayment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32549/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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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.

All applications from or in respect of persons who were admitted to long stay residences are assessed within this legal framework and only the specific charges outlined above are repayable under the Health Repayment Scheme.