Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised)
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
That is the first thing. Second, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who is leading in this area, is spending a lot of time on home care and the interRAI system. We have pilots all over the country. We will be moving to a position where home care will be on a much more standardised basis and standardised to the needs of the person at home. HIQA will be beginning to look at regulation within home care, which is another important change. The Estimates before us contain a lot of money around the decongregated settings move. A huge amount of work has been done and I can ask the Department to revert with the numbers this year and in recent years around getting rid of those large centres and moving to the much smaller houses.
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