Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Last year, 20.5 million hours were delivered and I have the funding to do more. Those 5,300 people who are waiting at the moment for home care are not waiting because of a funding issue but because of a service delivery issue. The private capacity is even nearly maxed out at the moment. Currently we have rolling recruitment campaigns across all of the HSE and the CHOs. In CHO 5, we will have five rolling recruitment campaigns. This is ongoing down in counties Cork and Kerry and all over the country but we are also trying to build capacity.