Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I believe in the continuum of care approach. One of the difficulties that exists in society at present is that it is a case of either pretty poor care in the community versus full-time nursing home or residential care. It is clear that we need to develop some kind of continuum policy which falls somewhere between care being provided in the home and full-time residential care. Have our guests compiled costings on the relative savings that would accrue from providing a more wide-ranging continuum of care approach rather than continuing to overemphasise residential care? I ask this because, obviously, the Department of Finance speaks the language of euro.