Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 19 July 2012
776 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked 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 who are in public care; the number who 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]
View answerThe 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:
|
Category |
No. of People |
|
Public Nursing Homes (people who have been there since before the Nursing Homes Support Scheme commenced) |
3,266 |
|
Public Nursing Homes (Nursing Homes Support Scheme) |
1,898 |
|
Section 39 Nursing Homes (i.e. nursing homes which received funding for long-term residential care under section 39 of the Health Act 2004 prior to the commencement of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme) (people who have been there since before the Nursing Homes Support Scheme commenced) |
147 |
|
Section 39 Nursing Homes (Nursing Homes Support Scheme) |
253 |
|
Subvention |
1,093 |
|
Contract Beds |
1,647 |
|
Private Nursing Homes |
13,368 |
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.
