Áine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that and I know that such agencies are available. My concern, obviously, is that they are three or four times more expensive and people cannot afford them. From the point of view of continuity of service for the elderly person concerned, he or she might have, for example, an hour's home help. The elderly person might have two or three different individuals providing that who are being paid for by the HSE and might like to increase that by an hour a day with the same people providing the home help of those two or three in the pool rather than going externally to an agency, which has no continuous service and where one could have a different person in every day.