Martin Daly (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)

It is a cause of great distress to parents who are getting older in terms of knowing what is going to happen. Ms Walker-Strong made a good point about having the option to come back into the community, but one of my patients took someone back into the community. It was not working out as they got older but there was no way back in.

I have used the line before that an issue will be solved when the person dies. It was solved within ten days in this case because the poor woman fell and broke her hip and died in surgery. The family came to me and I told them to stand back because if they did so they would have ten days' residential care sorted and everyone would be happy.