David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I think people who provide personal assistance services would disagree that they do not have a role to play in the home. There are a number of organisations that have written to us and lobbied us as members of this committee asking us to ask that very question. Why has the regulation of personal assistance hours or services been excluded? We are being asked to ask that question of the witnesses, who developed the Bill.