Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy asked me a question and I will answer it. The Deputy has to be fair about the waiting list. There is no one on the waiting list who is not funded for a package. Some 3,000 of those people have a partial package from Monday to Friday, but there are challenges at the weekend. Approximately 2,900 people are new entrants who come into the system constantly. Let us be fair here. Three years ago, 9,000 people were waiting.