Mr. John Dunne:

It is not about savings. An example is the best way to illustrate it. The previous Government created a statutory entitlement to residential care, which costs approximately ten times the cost of community based care. In the current fiscal climate, even though the family, the doctor and the HSE official in control of the budget all do not want to do the residential care, they cannot fund community care. They can only offer residential care. Therefore, if somebody is seeking the equivalent of €50 per week, they are told they cannot have it but the HSE can give them €700 per week.