65 Miss Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the plans, if any, there are to increase the amount of subventions for persons in nursing homes. [22331/96]

Limerick East): The Health (Nursing Homes) Act, 1990 which came into effect on 1 September 1993 has two principal objectives. First, to ensure high standards of accommodation and care in all registered nursing homes registered by health boards under the Act, and, second, to provide a new system of nursing home subvention so that dependent persons most in need of nursing home care would have access to such care.