Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am talking about public health nurses, because the issue now is that we want more people to stay at home and not to be in nursing homes. We need to make sure that we have a sufficient number of professionals to be able to deal with the new challenges posed by the number of people requiring care in the home. I have been involved in a case already that was covered by one of the national newspapers where a lady was getting an appalling level of care, yet her apartment was less than 100 yd from the base of the public health nurse.