Irish Examiner view: Attorney General delivers remarkable opinion

The Attorney General’s office said that the State’s legal strategy towards citizens who were charged nursing home fees was 'sound, accurate, and appropriate'. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

We learned this week from the Attorney General’s office that the State’s legal strategy towards citizens who were charged nursing home fees was “sound, accurate, and appropriate” .

Readers will be familiar with the backstory to this report —the allegations that successive governments have for years devised and applied a strategy to deny refunds to people who were “illegally charged” nursing home fees, sought to contest associated cases, and only settled when people proceeded with their legal actions.