Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the operation of the fair deal scheme to allow people to have the option to be cared for 24 hours a day in their own homes as an alternative to nursing home care [17821/13]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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The Programme for Government contains a commitment to consider developing a secure and equitable system of financing for community and long-term care which supports older people to stay in their own homes.

In advance of this piece of work being carried out, the Nursing Homes Support Scheme is being reviewed. The review of the Scheme will inform the commitment made in the Programme for Government and includes the following terms of reference:

- consideration of the balance of funding between long-term residential care and community based services, and

- consideration of the extension of the scheme to community based services.

Work will continue on the review in the coming months with a view to completion in 2013.