Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Home Care: Discussion

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

This is like an awful lot of other sectors, such as the childcare sector, which was mentioned earlier, in which we are not giving people the respect and pay they need. That is why we are not able to retain people. It is as simple as that. Obviously, the contracts are not fit to do the business we need to have done. We all welcome the fact this work advisory task force is now in place, but it has work to do. I will ask each of the witnesses to tell us, as quickly as possible, what is the minimum we need to deliver for people, to create a sustainable system and, beyond that, to provide people with training and other things they need with regard to their work. If I can be greedy, I will ask everyone to give their view.

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