Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will move on to the issue of home care. I recently saw figures around home care providers. Some 42% of home care providers are over 60 years of age. Does that not pose a challenge into the future? How are we planning to deal with that? There are now more than 800,000 people over the age of 66. That population will be more than 1 million within the next six years. There is going to be greater demand for home care. I know we have planned for the next 12 months but do we have a plan for the next three or four years on the issue of how we get more people into providing home care?