Nursing home and audit Bills
Bernard Durkan asks about Bills protecting Lourdes and symphysiotomy scheme payments in nursing-home assessments and transposing audit requirements. The Minister says the nursing-home Bill is intended this year and the audit Bill is being prepared.
I refer to the nursing home support scheme (amendment) Bill, to provide that payments made to women under the Lourdes hospital redress scheme, the Lourdes hospital payments scheme and the surgical symphysiotomy payments scheme will not be taken into account in applications made under the nursing home support scheme. When will the Bill come before the House? Have the heads been cleared? Is it likely to come before the House by the end of the current session? Quite a number of people are concerned about it.
I refer to the Companies Auditing Bill, which is also promised legislation and is to allow for member state options contained in an EU directive. When is it likely to be published?
Comment on this
The companies auditing Bill is being prepared with the Attorney General to transpose the direction. The nursing homes support scheme (amendment) Bill has four heads. It is intended to publish it this year.