Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am working on expediting as much of this as possible. As I said, we are putting a package of infrastructure investment in place for CUH. It is the biggest hospital in the country. It needs a level of investment it has not had in a significant time. The Deputy will be aware that Mercy University Hospital has had some recent invest and is doing well with it. I fully acknowledge the issues the Deputy's constituents are facing. It is worth saying in the context of the additional capacity, that it is being added quite quickly. For example, approximately 17.5 million hours of home care were delivered in 2020. Last year, that went up to 21 million hours. If my numbers are correct, that is approximately 3.5 million more hours of home care support delivered last year than in 2020. We know more is needed. We are adding it as quickly as we can grow the workforce.