Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

You have the event and are brought to hospital. The next step is to try to get you home, but if you do not have the support in the home, you are not able to make that transition. It is about that pathway. There are simple things, such as getting an occupational therapist, OT, to say that you might need a shower rail or a ramp going into the house. These are all simple things. In some areas, there is a good relationship with the local authority but in other places there is not. There seem to be gaps. That was one of the questions I was asking the discharge team in University Hospital Limerick. I asked is there a good relationship in place. I know that there is a good relationship in south Dublin but there is a long waiting list. Years ago, the council team would do it but councils do not have the staff now so it falls to private operators. Is Mr. Gloster finding that there is a gap? Is that an issue he has encountered?