Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I agree with Ms Crehan-Roche that it is progressive and encouraging that we will move towards more home care, but where home care is provided by a private entity, I have a concern about the interaction between the private entity and the community healthcare organisations, CHOs, or Sláintecare. A privately supplied employee might not be aware or have suitable training to allow the person whom he or she is supporting to access further services. If the person that employee is supporting needs occupational therapy, for example, through the public system, we need to ensure the training is good enough that a privately supplied care worker has the full complement of information to be able to access those primary care services. I want to flag that for people.

I have a quick question for the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. Has there been any consideration within her brief of the issue of long Covid?