Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of the Sláintecare Report (Resumed)

9:00 am

Dr. Maev-Ann Wren:

I will respond first to Senator Colm Burke's very welcome questions about the care of older people.

To briefly recap on some of the detail of our findings, which I did not share in the opening statement, our projections for the population aged 65 and over is for an increase in the region of 300,000 to 400,000. The figures Senator Burke gave were for our overall population increase but-----