Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Deputy Stagg could learn if he listened. We are trying to work on a number of fronts to provide better regulated and inspected accommodation and to find better home care packages, more home care hours and better facilities for the elderly. We are going to spend €1 billion on that, while at the same time providing a system in which people can have certainty. We will have a legislative opportunity during 2007 to deal with the issue but it is fundamentally unfair now and we are doing our best and damnedest to make it fair for the future.

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