'All options will be explored' for two Cork nursing homes to be sold after receivership

The Department of Health said Minister of State in Department of Health (Mental Health and Older People), Mary Butler, is 'concerned to hear of the current situation' at Aperee Ltd

Although the company has promised the appointment of receivers won’t change the operation of the homes, concern about the its future has been growing. File picture

The Department of Health, watchdog Hiqa and the HSE will “explore all options” in relation to two nursing homes in Cork due to be sold after receivers were appointed to them.

The homes in Conna, near Fermoy, and Bantry are run by Aperee Living, which was last year reported to gardaí after residents' money was found to have been used to run some of the company’s homes. That was before the company was taken over by a group of investors last November.