Mr. Seán Moynihan:

I will speak in general terms and Ms Loughran might wish to speak to specifics. The purpose of the Bill relates to the fact that prior to this, there has been a funding-led model. There is a certain level of funding and it is a matter of loaves and fishes, with everybody trying to get things, rather than determining what one person's needs are, whether that is 20 hours a week, while another person's might be 14 hours, and so forth. It is a very difficult job, in fairness to people throughout the country in healthcare, discharging and other parts of the system. It is about how we decide who gets what number of hours. Somebody in the system will probably have worked hard to get these people any hours, so in some ways, even if they are not suitable hours or suitable connections, people are nearly stuck with having to maintain a provision that is below what they would want or what their clinician would want for them, just on the basis of people working hard to divide up what is currently available.