A report by the Attorney General into nursing home charges has found that the legal strategy employed by the Government was “sound, accurate and appropriate”.
The report was compiled by Attorney General Rossa Fanning following a week of controversy into the legal strategies used by successive Governments to settle cases where people had to pay private nursing home fees out of court.
In 1970, it was decided that people with medical cards were entitled to free nursing home stays. However, some medical cardholders were placed in private homes due to capacity constraints and they paid for care.
