Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 553: To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to facilitate the outstanding 1,300 applications for fair deal nursing home places which have been fully processed in local offices and await funding in order that they can enter a nursing home; and the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied). [18280/11]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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The processing of approvals for financial support under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme re-commenced on the 13th June. Approvals are being issued to those applicants processed to final stage in the chronological order in which they were received in the Central Office in Tullamore. The first 497 of these applicants have been dealt with. Funding is being assigned on a daily basis. There are approximately 600 further applications in progress and now awaiting approval in July.

With regard to an individual's application under the scheme, this is a service matter and has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.