Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Moynihan. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to this because every family unit is different. Some people have children living nearby. Others have one child or three children or five or six children. Some people have a number of children but they live in different parts of the country. I have come across cases where daughters are living in Dublin but their mother is living at home and that creates difficulties. It might work in terms of remote working depending on the type of jobs the daughters have. There is no one-size-fits-all approach and family units are getting smaller in general and people are getting older. That creates longer-term issues. People are living for longer, thankfully, and where five or six years ago the issue was funding for hours now the issue is getting people to deliver the hours.

When Mr. Moynihan speaks about the fair deal scheme bureaucracy, obviously he agrees with the statutory right to home care but is concerned in case it becomes bureaucratic like the fair deal scheme is. Does he think it can be a simpler model?