Nursing home subventions

Madam, - The recent announcement that the HSE will be empowered to refuse subvention for private nursing homes for an older person…

Madam, - The recent announcement that the HSE will be empowered to refuse subvention for private nursing homes for an older person living alone in a house worth more than €500,000 in Dublin and €300,000 outside Dublin is to be condemned by all right-thinking people.

What other disgusting measures will this Government take to create more revenue for its overflowing coffers? It is not the fault of house owners that properties which were bought for a pittance have appreciated vastly.

- Yours, etc,

PAUL DORAN, Monastery Walk, Dublin 22.