Mr. Ed Crotty:

I support what has been said. On a practical level, if one takes for example a home care package in Arklow and there is a carer who wants to go there, one wants to add two or three more home care packages so one has a cluster of them in the area. Each home care package is commissioned independently of all the others so there is no opportunity to cluster them. I do not mean to focus on Arklow but if one takes a home care package there, assuming one's rates are competitive, one should be able to get the next three or four that come along so there would be one carer who goes there and has a whole morning's work. Is that what Ms Carthy is saying?