Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have raised the matter in my opening remarks. Subhead C1 relates to primary care and community-led demand schemes, which have seen a reduction of 8.6%. My particular area of concern relates to the 950,000 home help hours that were removed. The Minister, in his response, talked about restoring the hours to the 2011 figures and the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, gave a commitment to restore the 2012 level of home help hours. Will those same home help hours be restored during the remainder of this year, 2013, to the same older and disabled people who had them removed from them in the first place?