Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

We used to be here and before other committees talking about the fact we had a lack of funding for home care and could not provide enough. We still have a problem but we have a different problem. The problem has moved to not being able to recruit enough staff. We are focused on that. We employ approximately half the staff in home care and the rest are in voluntary and private organisations. There is a shortage of those staff. We are working with those agencies on how to make it a more attractive profession, improve the continuity of staff-----