A number of companies are pursuing Aperee Living, a private company which runs several nursing homes, over unpaid bills they claim they are owed for services provided to care homes.
Inspections had found the company was inappropriately using residents’ money to cover the running costs of nursing homes, before topping accounts back up, as well as cases where money had not been returned to deceased residents’ estates.
Separately, a company that provides agency staff to nursing homes has taken legal action against Aperee over outstanding invoices it said it has yet to be paid. Around the middle of this year the company stopped providing agency staff to Aperee, and took legal action against the nursing home group in August.
The nursing home group was set up by Cork-based investments firm BlackBee Group, with its founder, Cork businessman David O’Shea, currently the sole director of Aperee’s holding company. It is understood about three-quarters of the 44 residents that had been in the home have been moved, with the remaining residents to transfer to other homes in the next week.