Mr. Ed Murphy:

The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, said it would be 2016 before she reached the point of bringing in regulations for home care services. We have been pushing for it for six or seven years and came up with standards for quality home care provision in 2009, but they were never brought into play, even as guidelines. We have been pushing for that because it will really make a difference to private, not-for-profit and public provision if we can all apply a standard.