Nursing homes seek €3,500 yearly increase under scheme

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The Chief Executive of Nursing Homes Ireland has called for a €69 weekly increase per resident under the Fair Deal Scheme.

Energy costs, staffing shortages and the cost-of-living crisis continue to put strain on smaller nursing homes in the industry, the Health Information and Quality Authority has warned.

"What we're looking for is an increase in the Fair Deal rate something of the order of €69 per resident per week," he told Divetime."It is very, very dire. Twenty-nine nursing homes with less than 40 beds have closed their doors in the last number of years," he said. "What we've got to remember is that this is their home and many of them would have lived there for a long number of years," he added.

 

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Why you don’t talk about the home care staff struggling? A lot of foreign staff waiting to apply for a visa.

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