Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Question:80 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 can apply for the €2,000 rebate announced in December 2004. [2197/05]
View answerThursday, 27 January 2005
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The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services.
Responsibility for the administration of the ex gratia payment scheme referred to by the Deputy, under which payments of up to €2,000 have commenced to those fully eligible persons who were alive on the 9 December 2004 and who paid charges for long-stay care in institutions run by former health boards or private nursing homes, solely by virtue of a contractual arrangement with a former health board, including those whose medical cards were withdrawn on admission to the institutions in question, rests with the executive. Where the amount paid was less than €2,000, the full amount will be repaid.
My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south-western area to investigate the matter raised and to reply directly to the Deputy.