Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

For children with special needs, we want to employ 100 or 120 new therapists next year, in speech and physiotherapy. These are the choices. We want to be able to maintain as many old people as possible at home. Currently some 10,000 older people are receiving home care packages. We did not have any home care packages a couple of years ago. In addition——

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