Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2015
683. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 20 October 2015 regarding the stalemate between the National Treatment Purchase Fund and AnovoCare nursing home, which stalemate is preventing the latter from opening, the stage in the three-stage review process that this dispute is currently at; and if anything can be done to expedite a resolution. [37525/15]
Amharc ar fhreagraAs outlined in Question No. 530 of 20 October 2015, the legislation underpinning the Nursing Homes Support Scheme requires each private nursing home to negotiate and agree a price for long-term residential care services with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) should they wish to be an approved nursing home for the purposes of the Scheme.
The National Treatment Purchase Fund has statutory independence in the performance of its function, and negotiates with each nursing home on an individual basis. Pricing contracts are entirely a matter for agreement between the NTPF and the nursing home in question, and the Department of Health has no role in such individual negotiations.
