180 Deputy Seymour Crawford asked the Minister for Health and Children the way she came to the decision that €531 a week was the cost of nursing home care in Cavan/Monaghan; her views on whether it is right that an old age pensioner with an income of €209 per week will have to pay €106 of that towards a nursing home caring for their spouse; if it is wrong that someone entering the same nursing home in the year 2006 should be fully covered by subvention and yet this person because they entered in 2007 has to use their full pension plus their spouse’s pension to pay for their keep; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17358/07]

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180 Deputy Seymour Crawford asked the Minister for Health and Children the way she came to the decision that €531 a week was the cost of nursing home care in Cavan/Monaghan; her views on whether it is right that an old age pensioner with an income of €209 per week will have to pay €106 of that towards a nursing home caring for their spouse; if it is wrong that someone entering the same nursing home in the year 2006 should be fully covered by subvention and yet this person because they entered in 2007 has to use their full pension plus their spouse’s pension to pay for their keep; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17358/07]

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