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THE HEALTH SERVICE Executive is to remove St Clair’s Nursing Home in Co Westmeath from its list of “approved nursing homes”, meaning current residents whose care is funded under the ‘Fair Deal’ scheme will no longer receive that support.
Nursing home owners are required to meet a set of criteria outlined in the Nursing Home Support Scheme in order to attain ‘approved’ status. According to the HSE, St Clair’s is “no longer compliant” with the those criteria, meaning financial support will no longer be provided. The HSE is stressing that this is “not related to the standard of care at the nursing home”. According to a statement:
The practical implication of this is that the HSE will no longer be able to financially support those patients in the nursing home who have previously been in receipt of financial support towards their cost of care at St. Clair’s Nursing Home.
St Clairs – located in Ballinderry, Mullingar – currently has the capacity to care for 43 occupants through a combination of short and long stay beds. According to statement from the home, it ceased participating in the Fair Deal Scheme as of Friday 9 August. It will continue to operate as a nursing home for privately-paying residents.
According to the HSE, the residents and their families have been informed of the situation and are being given the following options:
a) continue at the nursing home without financial support from the HSE or,b) For the patient to obtain care services from alternative provider who is listed as an approved nursing home.
Two liaison staff have been appointed by the HSE to help residents’ families find care elsewhere: “These staff will work with the families to help them identify the best options for continuation of their long term care”. The HSE statement concludes:
The HSE regrets that this course of action is necessary, particularly in regard to the inconvenience for the patients and their families, but the HSE is obliged to administer the scheme in accordance with the Nursing Home Support Scheme 2009.
I assume they were going to drive onto a premises rather than pop out of the boot on a street?
Now that would have been a sight to behold.
Congratulations An Garda Siochana. Pity the judicial system didnt do their jobs as well.
I was standing at Goldenbridge luas stop one afternoon last year and a car pulled up on the side of the road alongside the luas stop and the boot popped open, none of us paid any heed, I assumed someone was being dropped off to get the luas, until a man jumped out of the boot, hopped over the railings, ran to the far side of the luas stop, grabbed a rather large handbag off an older woman and ran back across and dived over the railings back into the boot of the car and pulled it closed after himself as the car sped off. All happened so fast I don’t think anyone standing at the luas realised what was happening until after, and all this took place right in the view of the luas stop cctv cameras.
What will happen them when they get to court? Nothing! They would get 15 to 20 in the USA. be out in 18 months in Ireland. The Garda catch them, then the courts release them. its just like fishing catch and release. A lawless country a place with no consequences.
15 to 20 seems a bit much.
Nature or nurture?
These people have a bad start in life so we need to make some allowance for this.
We don’t see any rich kids turning to crime its usually poorer people with drug addictions.
No rich kids do it white collar crime and get away with it. They also take drugs.
What can they be charged with?
Not wearing a seat belt will only get them a couple of penalty points.
@ Voteno Voteno
What an utterly ridiculous comment trying to make excuses for criminals and crime, are you a defense lawyer by any chance.
Next time spare a thought for victims before coming out with such tripe
no rich kids ever beat anyone to death out side a night club….
Over 300 people believe 15 to 20 years for not being properly seated and in possession of several questionable items is within US sentencing guidelines.
Great work well done to the Garda.
The best police force in the world.
Haha your a funny troll
I agree. The vast majority of the Guards do a fantastic job. They should feel very proud indeed.
I think we are lucky to have a dedicated unarmed police force
I think the Organised crime and drugs unit are infact armed. Having said that we are lucky that they very rarely ever use their guns and i cant recall last time a Garda shot anyone.
Great work well done to the Gardaí but let’s not go over the top………
If SF want to deal with thugs who assault and burgle innocent people up and down the country with slash hooks and sawn-off shotguns, then they’ll get my vote.
Thought you were an Italian ,Voteno .
Karen, you have a short memory
Loving this proactive policing we are seeing lately.
Were they charged as extra baggage?
Was the meter running on the Taxi?
The taxi driver will deny all knowledge of the occupants in the boot. And then tell the judge he hasn’t had a fare increase for years.
They’re most likely out on bail as we speak
Gobsh!tes
We have some real characters with taxis in this country.
Sounds like the Gardai stopped a St Patrick’s Day Banker’s float by mistake ….
right then lads where r ye off to?
Umm Booterstown?
Should have just impounded the car and to hell with the goons in the boot..
Journal…. Men found in “car boot of car”?? Think you need to do a bit of editing
Good job by the garda the don’t always get it wrong
Tip off?
Fancy dress party maybe ?
Those fecking taxi drivers .. carrying extra passengers in the boot….
Maybe they were transvestites that just wanted to practise for the Piste? That would account for the ski masks & wigs, and sure the knives might just have have been to pare their apples? Innocent till proven gullty & all that.
I blame the Catholic Church
Sorry, but I just laughed my ar*e off after reading that headline.
Ha ha ha ha
They were no nidge’s , bunch of idiots .
Well done to *these* Gardai, much better job than their colleague, who was pepper spraying the homeless guy, because the force is somewhere between 50-90% sound. That 10-50% though, we gotta do something quick.
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xssyCecm2TY
Let me disrupt the Garda love in…..
The fellas who travel in the boot are usually going to a bog.
Was one of the implements a shovel?
Interesting the only one not barred (bail condition) from stoneybatter is the taxi driver ….so your taxi driver tonight might be a suspected armed robber
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