Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage
2:00 am
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
One of the challenges in answering that relates to our demographics. We are all getting older and there will be a greater need for care within community facilities. That is making it harder to measure that demand. We are working across Government in that space in terms of health strategies generally. For those who self-declare, we do not have a huge amount of detail on what their hours are. We engage with the groups on that. We engage very strongly with carers' groups and have a very strong working relationship with them, to go back to Deputy Wall's point, in trying to make sure that people who are entitled to this get it. On his suggestion, we will certainly do a lot more of that in 2026.
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