Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but if Mr. O'Brien was talking about such a mechanism I would not agree because people in their homes would be told they would be charged for being minded at home, after paying taxes all their lives.

To return to what was raised by my colleague, which I also raised, one cannot have a system where one talks about choice where there is no choice, and one cannot have a review without looking at quality of life and all the other services such as smart cities, smart travel and all the wonderful smart documents we have got and then tell someone in Galway city that one must go from Barna to Kilcolgan, Oranmore or somewhere else. That is not a smart policy. Any review should examine that so people can visit their loved ones in a nursing home and that they can go out and stroll around. If a review involving value for money is to mean anything then it must include that.