Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Separate from the home care packages are the home help hours. In the same period, the HSE reduced the number of home help hours from 11.1 million in 2011 to 10.3 million in 2013, which is a 10% reduction. The elderly and people who are ill at home are bearing a disproportionate cut when one looks at the home care packages and at the home help hours. The number of people in receipt of home help hours has been reduced somewhat. There is a disproportionate cut in those two areas for elderly people in their homes.