Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms McArdle for her reply. I am trying to understand how the money is given out through the CHO areas. It seems that in the area I live in, which is CHO 8, people in receipt of home care had to die before there were hours available for allocation to somebody else. This is unacceptable. I understand that the "recycling of hours", which, I understand, is the administrative term for it, was stopped because the CHO had gone over budget. At the start of the year a CHO has a budget. It is important in terms of how it uses that budget that people get the care that they need regardless of where they live or in what month of they year they apply for it. They are two serious and important issues for me.