David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We got correspondence from the National Community Care Network, which is an umbrella group of the non-profit home care and support companies. I have a concern about developing the model around the private sector as opposed to seeing a model that develops public capacity and public health and social care services, which would be my preference. However, be that as it may, what I have been told in the correspondence received by all members of this committee is that the rate being offered is €31 an hour, but that covers – I ask the witnesses to clarify this – the cost of travel time, a living wage and other expenses the providers would have to cover. Is that correct?