Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

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Every constituency office has dealt with multiple cases in which families have had difficulties in accessing these services and ensuring their loved ones can be looked after in their homes. It is vital. Weekend care has been a major issue. The Chair has already dealt with a significant amount of the work. The work advisory task force has to recognise that pay, conditions and expenses are not cutting the mustard. I have had interactions with the Minister of State on this matter. There have been a number of informal meetings but this group has to lay out what needs to be done. In fairness, the Minister of State has spoken about the many alternatives, including offering tax breaks and allowing people who work in healthcare and who would be able to do this work to do it as a nixer. We have to look at all the issues across the board in respect of visas and so on.

Something has come up to which I would like an answer. It is the issue of weekend care and the expenses, including travel expenses. There seem to be differences in payments between different community healthcare organisations, CHOs. Mr. Musgrave is probably the most likely to have a significant amount of detail on this matter. Could we get a layout of that issue and the associated difficulties?