Commercial Property Demand for nursing homes increasing as deals worth €440m completed last yearFalling emigration, increased affluence along with improved health and longer life expectancy are sending demand for nursing home beds soaring with 2022 being the second-strongest year in terms of deals after 2021
Health 100 legal cases still ‘live’ over nursing home chargesDepartment of Health secretary general says there are between 12 and 20 cases over nursing home charges that could result in further liability to the state
Politics Varadkar says claims Attorney General’s office was used politically are ‘unfair’The Taoiseach also said there was nothing ‘sinister’ about how the government tried to minimise payments over nursing home care
Health Attorney General finds government’s legal strategy on nursing home fees was ‘sound’The government had been accused of minimising public payouts to nursing home residents who were wrongly charged for care
Politics ‘I am just surprised that there is such a level of surprise’ over state’s strategy Gareth Noble, a leading children’s lawyer, says the state’s legal containment strategy is also applied to cases including disabled children and adults
Health Conor O’Mahony: state’s legal strategy on nursing home charges is the rule, not the exception‘The aim is to send a message: if you come for the state, you’d better not miss’, writes Professor Conor O’Mahony of the School of Law at University College Cork
Politics Varadkar: nursing home legal strategy was ‘sound policy and legitimate’The Taoiseach said that he must have been briefed about the matter, and would have signed off on it
Politics Attorney General to investigate allegations of ‘illegal’ nursing home chargesA whistleblower has said the government pursued a secret strategy to minimise public payouts
Politics Taoiseach ‘did not know’ of state’s legal strategy on nursing home chargesVaradkar was responding to a report which claimed the state had pursued a strategy to suppress its liability in relation to ‘illegal’ nursing home charges
Health Soaring building prices pushes up cost of state nursing home contract by €100mMultinational construction company BAM withdrew when it could no longer stand by its agreed fixed price
Health Three new nursing homes opened by Silver Stream Healthcare following €65m investmentThe move will double the group’s capacity to 750 beds and increase the number of homes it operates to 11
Commercial property European investors still keen on Irish care home marketThough activity has cooled a little, interest is still strong in homes run by top operators in future-proofed buildings, with more than €200m invested in the first four months of the year
Nursing homes to reduce waiting period to admit patients after Covid outbreaksNursing homes have been given permission to take in hospital patients within seven to ten days of the last case of Covid-19 being detected, rather than 28 days
Orpea faces claims of abuse in French nursing homesNew book alleges large-scale mistreatment of elderly residents in France by giant care home operator, which recently bought into Irish market
The Big Interview: Tom FinnThe chief executive of Silver Stream Healthcare is full of praise for the Irish healthcare system, but believes the government made an error in separating community healthcare from acute hospital services
Pair of eye-catching Dublin properties come to market from HoraNo 43 Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin 2 and Castle Manor on the Swords Road are guiding at €3.75m and €1.5m respectively
The battle against Covid: is vaccine immunity already on the wane?Israel is rolling out a booster programme as Covid-19 cases spike, while outbreaks in nursing homes here are suggesting reduced vaccine efficacy
ESRI predicts health spending will rise due to growing and ageing populationIncreased demand for non-hospital care and price hikes for high-tech medicines are among the factors expected to push up costs
Significant potential for institutional investors in senior careThe nursing home sector is growing in demand and will require proper policy and planning in the years ahead
Orpea buys out shares in Brindley HealthcareFrench care home group has bought remaining shares in firm having already bought several nursing homes in the past year
