Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
This is a policy matter for the Government and the health committee. Like the Chairman, we all have a particular interest in it because it is not working on the ground. I would love the health committee and our committee to look at home help. It has become more and more privatised. I am not sure where we are getting value for money in this regard because we do not know. It just went down that road, with fewer and fewer direct employees in home help. That is one problem, and maybe there is an aspect there for us to discuss. The second aspect is that in my area there is a limit on home help based on-----
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