Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 776: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons in long stay nursing home care paid for by the State; the number of these persons that are in public care; the number that are cared for in private nursing homes subsidised by the State; and if he will provide separately the total projected cost for 2012 of public provision and private provision subsidised by the State [36573/12]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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The total gross budget for long-term residential care in 2012 is €994.7m. This is effectively the budget for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme albeit that pre-Nursing Homes Support Scheme arrangements must also be facilitated from within the subhead, i.e. people in contract beds, people who choose to remain on subvention and people who were in public nursing homes prior to the commencement of the Scheme.

The breakdown of the 21,672 people is as follows:

Finally, I have referred the portion of the question relating to the projected costs of public and private provision in 2012 to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.