Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy will appreciate that this only happened in the last few days, but I will ask the director general to address the specific point. I was just offering a general comment on the matter.

Deputy Murphy O'Mahony raised the home help hours. Again, we all have an issue with that. It has taken a great deal of my time in the last week trying to get my head around it. We hope to start the public consultation on it within the next week to get the views of stakeholders, people who have been providing the service and so forth. To be fair, the fair deal scheme is a good scheme and is working well. Obviously, issues arise in it but, by and large, it is a positive experience and we wish to replicate that-----