Mr. Bernard Gloster:

It is usually a public health nursing assessment but sometimes it can be informed by other clinical views. To get the best use of it to the greatest number of people possible, it is restricted to the very significant personal care tasks a person has a dependency on. The Cathaoirleach would not find anybody working in the Irish health service disputing with him that if we could do more over time and move on to elements of social care, we would.