118 Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many elderly persons and their families were obliged to arrange and pay for private nursing home care due to the lack of public facilities to meet their needs; her views on whether it is equitable that such persons were precluded from seeking repayment of nursing home fees under the terms of the health repayment scheme; her further views on the introduction of a further health repayment scheme to afford equity of treatment of persons who paid fees in respect of private long stay beds only because no public long stay beds were made available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7423/08]

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118 Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many elderly persons and their families were obliged to arrange and pay for private nursing home care due to the lack of public facilities to meet their needs; her views on whether it is equitable that such persons were precluded from seeking repayment of nursing home fees under the terms of the health repayment scheme; her further views on the introduction of a further health repayment scheme to afford equity of treatment of persons who paid fees in respect of private long stay beds only because no public long stay beds were made available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7423/08]

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