Ms Mary Burke:

Part of the question related to how far the public health nurse can go to get further time from a carer for a patient. It is very difficult in many cases. We have to wait until someone else dies and their hours become available. However, we continue to lobby our line manager until those hours become available to us and then we transfer them over to our patient. That is the only way we can do it. If the hours are not there, they are not there.