Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the person in the hospital bed and the family with the ageing parents, it is very frustrating to say we know there are proper pathways that could be delivered on. Respite is the answer for the parent of the teenager. We need more respite and to build more capacity into it. Earlier today, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, and I met the Taoiseach to discuss the need for planned funding for more respite. Putting in respite is the most important means of preventing more expensive cases that end up in emergency residential spaces.