Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 March 2005
211 Mr. Ring asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if persons who held a medical card and had to stay in a private nursing home as there was no place available in a public nursing home will also be compensated in relation to the repayments to persons overcharged for stays in public nursing homes. [7844/05]
View answerThe Supreme Court judgment of 16 February 2005 related only to charges in public long stay institutions and publicly contracted beds in private nursing homes. A special Cabinet sub-committee comprising the Taoiseach, Deputy Ahern, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, the Attorney General, Mr. Brady and I has been established to consider the issue of repayment in light of the judgment.
