Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)

The HSE's 2012 national service plan states between a minimum of 7,089 to a maximum of 7,432 public beds will be closed. In the minimum range, the reduction in community nursing beds will be 900.

Is it acceptable elderly people in County Donegal receive home help of just 15 minutes a day? If we do not support home help or home care packages and community nursing beds are reduced, elderly people will be left on their own which I would contend is a form of elderly abuse.

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