Batt O'Keeffe
Ceist:54 Mr. B. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Health if he intends to make nursing home subventions a demand-led scheme. [10066/96]
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54 Mr. B. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Health if he intends to make nursing home subventions a demand-led scheme. [10066/96]
Limerick East): The Health (Nursing Homes) Act, 1990 which came into effect on 1 September 1993 has two principal objectives: first, to ensure high standards of accommodation and care in all registered nursing homes registered by health boards under the Act, and second to provide a new system of nursing home subvention so that dependent persons most in need of nursing home care would have access to such care.