Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 9 October 2012
558. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he proposes to take to assist those incorrectly charged for nursing home care while in receipt of a medical card as allowed under the 1970 Health Act; if he will recover this money as previously specified in a Supreme Court ruling. [42614/12]
View answerIn response to the Supreme Court ruling referred to by the Deputy, the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provided a clear legal framework to repay recoverable health charges for publicly funded long term residential care. The closing date for receipt of applications to the scheme was 31 December 2007. All living fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged were entitled to have their charges repaid in full. The estates of all those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged for publicly funded long term residential care and had died since 9 December 1998 were also entitled to have the charges repaid in full.
