Edward Nealon
Question:197 Mr. Nealon asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of elderly people from the Sligo and Leitrim areas are now resident in privately run old persons homes or nursing homes for whom no maintenance is being paid by the North Western Health Board; that this is causing a great hardship to the families of a number of these people; and the criteria for payment of a subsidy for the pensions of these people, in meeting the cost of the old persons' homes or nursing homes.