Ms Sandra Tuohy:

With regard to home support and home help, people receive home support on the basis of their needs. That will continue. As I stated, we will continue to try to reduce the number awaiting home support or increased support hours as resources allow. As mentioned by the Department representatives, we are moving to the interRAI assessment tool, which will help us to understand comprehensively a person's needs so the correct number of hours can be allocated to address them.