The families of 53 long term residents at Beaumont Residential Care are refusing to meet with the Minister for Older People Mary Butler as they say they have no faith in her.
The families have been thrown into crisis as the home is withdrawing from the Fair Deal scheme in a row over the lack of funding from the National Treatment Purchase Fund.
The families will hold further protests tomorrow outside the constituency offices of Ministers Simon Coveney, Michael McGrath and Tánaiste Micheál Martin as they intensify their demands for intervention from the Taoiseach regarding the crisis at the facility.
The families are accusing Minister Butler of stopping them from ramping up their campaign as they say she has selectively chosen to write to a small number of the families involved to assure them that alternative accommodation will be sought, but not the families of all the residents.
Management at Beaumont Residential Care say they have received on average an extra €16 per resident per week in their Cork homes while the HSE rate for publicly run nursing homes has increased by €183 per resident, per week in HSE homes in Cork.
