Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The committee could possibly follow that up with the relevant Minister. One significant issue for many families is the assessment of home care support needs. We have not really touched on it this morning. It is a big issue. Families often come to us and ask how it works out. Perhaps their loved one only needs an hour or half an hour of home care. One complaint in previous years was there was a system-wide roll-out of a single assessment tool in the HSE. There were concerns about various practitioners within the HSE being quite liberal with it in some areas. Is the assessment tool working properly? Is it State-wide? Is it one of the outstanding issues?