Government's secret plan to block repayment of illegal nursing home charges

Absolutely 100% agree

Jesus you are a heartless bastard. How would you feel if one of your family was impacted by what various governments have done ?

I wouldn't believe a word Gilmore says. He was up to no good when he was Tanaiste too. Does he still have his crony job in EU?

Leo is really getting a reputation for being very untrustworthy. As Taoiseach and Health Minister, he knew bloody well for a long time.

New politics FG style. The excuse merchants have had a busy January 🙂

As I recall there was an awful lot of money found it's way to the FFG cronies in Rehab and Siteserv at this time the public purse so desperately had to be defended.

Ah yeah but they were FG cronys, not the great unwashed that didn't have the means to take the state all the way to the steps of the courts. FG only care about their rich cronys.

That there's no blanket entitlement to residential care is true. I'm aware of adults with profound disabilities whose families are threatened with having their care abolished if they complain about standards.

That's our FFG.

But that still doesn't make this ok.

A government can't decide to secretly ignore what it knows to be legally right because it finds it inconvenient.

Also while the FFG shills are quick to jump on what the government might have expected, what about people who worked hard all their lives. Many of the generation affected by this would have started full-time work at 12 or their early teens.

Would they not have expected a decent standard of care in their old age. Or is this another case of Varadker saying 'Oops we broke the social contract'

"not one shred of public accountability for their distorted and grossly irresponsible mud slinging"

The Ditch on Twitter: "The **** Ditch is now a member of the Press Council. See youse in Leinster House 🦋🐝 There goes the neighbourhood." / Twitter

You can complain about them officially now if you want... should 'anon mud slinging' not be your thing

Leo has what we would say in layman's terms is selective memory.

They were! My Dad and his siblings entirely funded my Grandfather's end of life care for acute vascular dementia, for two years, at a private nursing home during the reference period for this.

But like many, if not most families, they weren't expecting the Government to look after everything and they were told in 1989 that if they wanted the Nursing Home they wanted, that it was private and it would cost them about 10k a year at that time.

This isn't about being heartless or not, its about what the legislation was, what the policy was at the time.

Don't be so bloody naive,do you know how little feckin money there was in the Exchequer contemporaneous to this stuff?

Governing means establishing a balance of priorities to support growth in the economy and stability and development in society. It does not involve exposing the State to limitless claims!

Pinch yourself to get out of dreamland lad and take your dreamer pals with you.