Families of Cork nursing home residents to protest outside ministers' offices

Family member Anne Rogers said that they plan to write Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, 'himself a medical professional, with a plea to show empathy and understanding of our plight today and in the future, to support the funding to allow the residents to remain in their home.'

Relatives and friends of Beaumont Residential Care residents are to protest outside Cork ministers’ offices calling for intervention, after the nursing home’s decision to leave the fair deal scheme.

The protest comes as the nursing home said it has been “forced by the actions and inactions of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF)” to leave the scheme under which the HSE pays a portion of a person’s nursing home fees.