Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Policy Issues for Carers: Family Carers Ireland
Ms Clare Duffy:
Anecdotally when an inspection such as this happens it tends to be where a report has been given externally to the Department that something funny is going on. This tends to be where an inspector gets involved. With regard to the care sharing arrangements Senator Wall referred to, on the previous occasion I got figures from the Department fewer than 50 of these arrangements were in existence. It is where one person cares one week and a sister or brother cares the other week and there is a set arrangement. In my experience when an inspector gets involved something has triggered it.
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